Sandwick Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 18/10/1977 Supplementary Information Updated 26/03/1997 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Dunrossness NGR HU 43282 23791 Coordinates 443282, 1123791 — Circa 1807, remodelled in 1897. 6 x 1-bay hall church of rectangular plan with gabled single storey entrance porch and porch/vestry projecting at centres of E and W gables respectively. Harled walls, cement and droved and polished sandstone ashlar margins and details. E GABLE: modern timber doors with plate glass fanlights to N and S elevations of entrance porch; 9-pane fixed-lights centring E and at left in N elevation; celtic cross at gable apex. Single window centred in principal gable behind; cement-rendered and lined belfry at apex, gabled with segmental-arched opening containing bell. N ELEVATION: round-arched windows in centre and flanking bays; blank in bays to outer right and left. W GABLE: door to left and window at right in N elevation of porch/ vestry; modern addition in re-entrant angle to S; 2-light timber mullioned window centred in principal gable behind; celtic cross at apex. S ELEVATION: round-arched windows in centre 4 bays; keystoned in centre 2 bays, lower windows to outer left and right. INTERIOR: timber fittings including vertically-boarded wainscoting, lined ceiling with exposed beams bearing on stone corbels. Raked gallery with panelled front at E end. Ball-finialled newels to balustrade fronting pulpit to W; panelled screen with decorative cresting behind. 15-pane timber fixed-lights to principal round-arched windows, 12-pane timber sash and case windows and 9-pane fixed-lights to other openings. Purple slate roof with cement-rendered skew copes. RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATES: rubble dwarf wall surmounted by concrete cope and decorative

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.