Parish Church, Fair Isle

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/03/1997 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Dunrossness NGR HZ 20655 70661 Coordinates 420655, 1070661 — Sinclair & Hardie, 1892. 3 x 2 bay symmetrical hall church with regularly fenestrated side elevations; entrance porch and vestry projecting from W and E gables respectively. Bull faced rubble walls with stugged and droved dressings and details, all painted. W GABLE: gabled single storey porch projecting at centre; 2 leaf vertically boarded timber entrance door with plate glass fanlight above; secondary vertically boarded door in S side of porch. Round- arched windows flanking porch; narrow louvered opening centred in gablehead; gabled bellcote on rectangular plinth at apex. E GABLE: 4 pane timber sash and case windows centring vestry elevations, vertically boarded timber door to left of window in S elevation. Round-arched windows in each bay of principal gable, rising into gablehead with narrow louvered opening centred above. 4 pane fixed lights to side elevations of hall, stained glass windows depicting local scenes by Patrick Ross Smith, 1995, in E gable. Purple-grey slate roofs, piended to vestry, painted ashlar skew copes with bracketted skewputts. INTERIOR: timber fittings including 4 panel inner entrance door, vertically boarded wainscoting, ceiling lining, and pews both facing and flanking panelled pulpit (with steps) centred on E wall with 4 panel vestry door to left. BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: random rubble boundary wall with triangular rubble cope. Stugged sandstone square gatepiers with concrete pyramidal caps centred to W.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.