Paterson Church, School Place, Kirkwall

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/03/1999 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Burgh Kirkwall NGR HY 45145 10822 Coordinates 345145, 1010822 — 1847. 2-storey, 3-bay gable-ended hall church with slightly advance central bay and single storey 2-bay hall to rear; central columnar traceried window; shouldered, square-plan buttresses dividing bays; finialled, pinnacle, square-plan bellcotes to buttresses flanking central bay; similar, arcaded gablehead bellcote with blind oculus to corbelled base. Polished sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cill course to flanking windows, continuous as hoodmould over door; hood moulds over windows (brackets to flanking windows); brackets and cope to eaves course. Round-arched openings; columnar mullions to central traceried window; aproned cills; single nook shafts to doorway. SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone flight of steps to central moulded doorway; 2-leaf timber-panelled door; timber-panelled infilled fanlight; 4-light window below gablehead bellcote; tall window in each bay flanking. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 7-bay: square-headed window in each bay at ground (timber panelled 2-leaf door with blocked, dated '1847' fanlight in opening to outer left); divided round-arched window with central circular light in each bay at 1st floor. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 7-bay, identical to SE; timber-panelled door with rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to outer right. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded door with small-pane fanlight in bay to right with window in bay to left to NW elevation of single storey hall in bay to centre; 2 evenly disposed 3-light windows with central circular light; blind round-arched opening to gablehead above. Leaded, stained glass windows; 12-pane timber sash and case windows to hall.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.