Sellafirth Church, Yell

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 30/03/1998 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Yell NGR HU 51650 98507 Coordinates 451650, 1198507 — 1862. 3-bay symmetrical Georgian-survival hall church of rectangular plan with gabled entrance porch and vestry projecting from W and E gables respectively, and birdcage bellcote to E gable. Harled rubble walls with droved sandstone ashlar margins to windows and doors. Rubble base course, projecting cills to windows. W (ENTRANCE) GABLE: symmetrical, 3 closely-spaced bays, stugged sandstone ashlar steps to gabled porch projecting at centre with 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door in round-arched doorway; windows in flanking bays. S ELEVATION: symmetrical, 3 widely-spaced and regularly-fenestrated bays. E GABLE: projecting gabled vestry off-set to left of centre. N ELEVATION: symmetrical, 3 widely-spaced and regularly-fenestrated bays. 13-pane fixed timber glazing to windows. Purple-grey slate roofs with stugged sandstone ashlar skew-copes and block skewputts. Stugged sandstone ashlar bell-cote comprising rectangular plinth to cote with corniced and ball-finialled pyramidal cap. Ball finial to apex of porch gable, stugged sandstone ashlar single-flue gablehead stack with circular can to vestry. INTERIOR: raked floor to W half of hall with horizontally-boarded pews facing E to panelled and bow-fronted timber lectern at centre; open timber pews to E half of hall, facing W, with small classicatimber and granite war memorial centred on wall behind. CHURCHYARD WALL: drystone rubble wall with triangular rubble cope forming rectangular enclosure with squat rubble piers to gate centred on W gable. — Church in ecclesiastical use. The church was built as North Yell Free Church in 1862, then became the United Free Church

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.