St John's Church, Walls, Hoy

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 10/05/2001 Supplementary Information Updated 09/07/2024 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Parish Walls And Flotta NGR ND 29772 91571 Coordinates 329772, 991571 — 1881. five-bay; rectangular-plan; Church of Scotland church (originally mission church) with small rectangular-plan gabled porch centred on west elevation and almost identical vestry centred on east elevation. Plain symmetrical design with lancet windows and small bellcote at east end. Harled with ashlar dressings (those below roof level painted cream). Architraved openings throughout. Vertical margins at arrises. Coped gables. NORTH ELEVATION: regularly disposed windows, one to each of five bays of nave. Entrance porch set back to outer right; entrance with four-panel timber door to left; window to right. Vestry set back to outer left; central window. SOUTH ELEVATION: regularly disposed windows, one to each of five bays of nave. Vestry set back to outer right; entrance with low pointed arched lintel (boarded timber door) to left; window to right. Entrance porch set back to outer left. WEST ELEVATION: gable end of entrance porch projects to centre; central window; fleur-de-lys finial to gable. Flanking breaking-eaves windows set back to gable end of nave; one above (set into slightly projecting vertical band). Square-plan bellcote to gable; gableted lancet opening to each side; surmounted by small pyramidal spire with truncated finial. EAST ELEVATION: blank gable end of vestry projects to centre. Flanking breaking-eaves windows set back to gable end of nave; one above. Truncated finial to gable. Three-pane fixed frame timber windows. Welsh slate roof to main building and vestry. Asbestos slate roof to porch. INTERIOR: nave open to king post roof. Timber floor

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.