Semblister Church, Semblister

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 29/01/1986 Supplementary Information Updated 26/03/1997 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Sandsting NGR HU 33819 50394 Coordinates 433819, 1150394 — 1780, with 19th additions. 3 x 1-bay near-symmetrical hall church with porch and vestry additions to W and E gables. Lime harl pointed rubble walls with stugged and droved sandstone ashlar margins and dressings. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical, gabled single storey entrance porch centring elevation comprising window in W side and door in S side; window centred in principal gable behind. S ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay elevation with centre bay off-set to left. E ELEVATION: symmetrical, blank-gabled vestry centring elevation with door in S side and window in N side. N ELEVATION: mirrored image of S elevation. Timber sash and case windows to porch, hall and vestry, all 12-pane except for 4-pane pattern to window centring W principal gable. Purple-grey slate roofs with ashlar skew copes and cast-iron gutters and downpipes with hoppers. Stugged and droved sandstone ashlar and rubble apex stack to vestry, coped with circular can. INTERIOR: round-arched margined door leading to hall from entrance porch. Central flagged aisle to hall; timber fittings to hall including some vertically-boarded timber wainscoting surviving, large raked gallery on cast-iron columns accessed by dog-leg stair in NW corner with horizontally-boarded pews and panelled front. Pulpit within enclosure centring E wall; stop-chamfered panelling, stair at right with cast-iron baluster, canted and panelled pulpit front; panelled and pilastered back with canted and corniced canopy capped by ogee dome with ball finial at apex. Plain coombed ceiling with 2-pane timber skylights. 4-panel timber

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.