Baptist Church, Victoria Street, Kirkwall

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 15/03/1999 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Burgh Kirkwall NGR HY 44832 10581 Coordinates 344832, 1010581 — T S Peace, dated 1888. 3-bay gable-ended hall church with pitched-roofed entrance porch, triple windows and large oculus to gable; slightly advanced gabletted 3-stage buttresses flanking main gable; stone crucifix to gablehead block. Squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; lintel cornice to porch; cill course below windows continuous at 1st stage of buttresses; string course at 2nd stage, continuous as hood moulds over windows; cornice below buttress gablets. Long and short margins to round-arched openings; chamfered reveals to main windows; aproned cills; paired nook-shafts to doorway. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: short stone flight to 2-leaf boarded doors to porch in bay to centre; cast date and inscriptions to overdoor space; trefoil finial to gable above; small window to each return. Triple windows, with taller central light, above porch; large oculus to gable; crucifix to gablehead above. S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank. E (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan hall along rear elevation with link to main church to W; windows in each bay to E. Gabled, end bays, blank. Large traceried window to main block behind; small round-headed boarded door to gable above; small block stack to gablehead. Timber-framed and leaded windows; rooflights to S pitch. Purple slate roofs; stone ridge; stone skews; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR; not seen, 1998. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Formerly the UP Hall. One of Victoria Street's two public buildings, both designed by the Orkney architect T S Peace, the other being the Gospel Hall. He was also responsi

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.