Old Kirk, Whiteness

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 18/10/1977 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Tingwall NGR HU 39393 47457 Coordinates 439393, 1147457 — 1837. 1x3-bay former hall church of rectangular plan with bellcote to W (entrance) gable and gabled vestry wing projecting from E (rear) gable. Harled walls with droved ashlar margins. Projecting cills to windows. W (ENTRANCE) GABLE: symmetrical, 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with rectangular fanlight centring gable, 16-pane timber sash and case window rising into gablehead surmounted by ashlar birdcage bellcote with corniced pyramidal stone cap. S AND N ELEVATIONS: regularly fenestrated with tall 5-pane timber fixed-lights in each bay. E (REAR) GABLE: single-flue gablehead stack to vestry wing (with modern lean-to addition to N) projecting at centre with window in principal gablehead above. Purple-grey slate roofs, ashlar skew-copes with bracketted skewputts. GRAVEYARD WALL: random rubble wall with concrete cope enclosing graveyard to S; wall terminated at church by single battered rubble pier with concrete cap — A former parish church, St Olaf's has now been converted to a house but retains its original appearance when viewed from the road. The church is a very prominent landmark in its picturesque setting on the shore of the Loch of Strom.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.