Methodist Church, Fair Isle

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/03/1997 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Dunrossness NGR HZ 20353 70211 Coordinates 420353, 1070211 — 1886. 2 x 2 bay symmetrical hall church with entrance porch projecting at E gable. Harl pointed rubble walls with stugged and droved sandstone dressings and details. Gabled stone porch with pointed arched door containing modern 2 leaf glazed timber entrance doors and 3 pane fanlight in arch head; narrow louvered opening centred in principal gable behind; gabled bellcote (bell in situ) on rectangular plinth at apex. Regularly fenestrated side and rear elevations with pointed- arched windows in each bay. 9 pane fixed lights to side elevations, pair of pointed arched stained glass windows of 1936 in W gable depicting religious scenes. Purple grey slate roof with skew copes removed. INTERIOR: timber fittings in hall including vertically boarded wainscoting, pews, lining to ceiling, platform pulpit along W wall with ball finialled newels to balustrade. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble wall with semicircular concrete cope enclosing rectangular kirkyard; square harl-pointed gatepiers with pyramidal caps to E. — With nearby Fair Isle Old Hall, this building forms a group on the ridge that is a prominent feature of the landscape in southern Fair Isle.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.