Methodist Church, Chapel Lane, Scalloway

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 28/07/2000 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Tingwall NGR HU 40204 39504 Coordinates 440204, 1139504 — 1861. 4 x 2-bay hall church on corner site with entrance porch and bellcote to S gable, and vestry wing projecting to E from E elevation. Harled walls with margins to windows. S (ENTRANCE) GABLE: symmetrical, pointed-arched window in gabled entrance porch at centre flanked by pointed-arched windows; stugged sandstone gabled bellcote on tapering plinth at gablehead with bell set in pointed-arched opening. E (CHAPEL LANE) ELEVATION: 4-pane window and vertically-boarded timber door in S elevation of chimney-gabled vestry wing projecting from outer right bay; pointed-arched window in each bay to left. N (HOUL ROAD) GABLE: symmetrical 2-bay gable with tall Y-traceried windows in each bay. 9-pane timber fixed-lights to pointed-arched windows; leaded glazing with coloured and patterned glass to windows in N gable. Purple-grey slate roof with finialled copper ridge ventilators; sandstone skew copes with obelisk-like finial to N gable. Stugged and droved sandstone stack to vestry with stone cope and tall circular chimney can. WALLS AND GATEPIERS: L-plan harled wall bounding E side of church, terminated to N by vestry; cement-rendered wall with wrought-iron railings curving to W from N wall of vestry, and terminated by rendered gatepiers with pyramidal caps.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.