Reawick Congregational Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 18/10/1977 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Sandsting NGR HU 31629 44817 Coordinates 431629, 1144817 — Dated 1863. Symmetrical hall church comprised of hall oriented E-W with gabled entrance porch and vestry to E and pulpit recess to W forming cruciform plan. Harled rubble walls. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 2-bay gabled entrance porch and vestry advanced at centre, lancets in each bay with date stone between, gabled bellcote on rectangular plinth at apex; angle buttresses at corners and pointed-arched doors in side elevations (N door infilled); blank elevation of hall to right and left. N AND S ELEVATIONS: symmetrical 2-bay gables with lancets in each bay and triangular vent in gablehead. W ELEVATION: symmetrical, 2-bay gable advanced at centre, pointed- arched windows with chamfered arrises in each bay; triangular vent centred in gablehead; blank elevation of hall to left and right. 11-pane fixed-lights to lancets, border-glazed W windows with coloured glass. Grey slate roof with harled skew copes. INTERIOR: timber pews with wide horizontal boards; vertically-boarded high back and panelled ends to pew centred at rear. Panelled timber pulpit on platform to W; organ of 1906 by W Doherty & Co of Canada centred to E; panelled enclosure with cast-iron and timber balustrade. — In ecclesiastical use. This crisply designed church is prominently sited overlooking Skelda Voe.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.