Parish Church, Main Street, Scalloway

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 18/10/1977 Supplementary Information Updated 28/07/2000 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Tingwall NGR HU 40110 39457 Coordinates 440110, 1139457 — 1840. Double-height 2 x 2-bay symmetrical hall church with single storey gabled vestry wing projecting to rear. Harl-pointed rubble principal elevation with stugged sandstone dressings, harled side and rear walls with droved and painted ashlar margins to windows and corners. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, piend-roofed single storey entrance porch centred at ground with vertically-boarded timber door in W face, gallery windows below eaves in each bay, ashlar birdcage bellcote breaking eaves at centre with swept ball-finialled pyramidal cap. E ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated with windows at ground and gallery levels. N (REAR) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation with pair of large segmental-arched windows flanking centre; 2-bay gable to single storey vestry projecting at outer left. W ELEVATION: matching E elevation, but with modern single storey flat-roofed addition at centre. Coloured glass to multi-pane border-glazed fixed-lights at principal and side elevations, 32-pane timber sash and case windows to rear elevation. Purple-grey slate piended platform roof. INTERIOR: horseshoe gallery supported on fluted columns. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: concrete-coped dwarf wall to Main Street (railings removed), pyramidal caps to cement-rendered gatepiers at centre and to taller piers at outer left and right. Random rubble boundary walls to E, W and N.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.