New Church, North Ronaldsay

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/05/1998 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Parish Cross And Burness NGR HY 75789 53881 Coordinates 375789, 1053881 — 1845-52; session house added circa 1900. 4-bay plain symmetrical rectangular-plan galleried church with pyramidal capped bellcote to E gable, adjoining lower 3-bay session house set back to E with single linking bay between. Harled over rubble; cement-rendered and lined to W. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: boarded door in bay to centre. Window in each bay to main church block to left. Boarded door set to left of centre with letterbox fanlight to session house to right; window in each remaining bay to right. N (REAR) ELEVATION: blank wall. E ELEVATION: blank gabled session house wall offset to right at ground; gablehead stack above. Centred gallery window to gable of main church; rectangular opening to each face of gablehead bellcote above. W ELEVATION: centred window, set high, to gable; tall round-headed window in each bay flanking. 24-pane timber sash and case windows, fixed leaded round-headed stained glass windows to W end to main church; 12-pane timber sash and case windows to session house. Caithness stone slates to church and to linking bay; purple Welsh slate to session house; stone ridges; stone skews; cement skews to W end; corniced bellcote; corniced (redundant) gablehead stack to session house. INTERIOR: plain interior with paired cast-iron columns supporting timber-panelled gallery along E end; stone flight in NE angle giving access to gallery; 2-leaf timber panelled door beneath gallery giving access to body of church; timber boarded floor; stained timber pews; plain timber panelled pulpit to W end with staircase to left; oak communion table; portable timber organ; 2 commemorative plaques alon

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.