St Nicholas' Church, Holm

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/12/1977 Supplementary Information Updated 12/04/2022 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Parish Holm NGR HY 51042 00638 Coordinates 351042, 1000638 — Rebuilt, 1781, renovated (or rebuilt again) in 1818. Five-bay, symmetrical, rectangular-plan, crowstepped gabled, plain hall church with low two-bay rectangular-plan vestry to east end. Harled. Walled churchyard extending around church with outbuilding to northern wall. South (Principal) Elevation: squat, round-arched window with horizontally aligned oval niche above in bay to centre. Tall round-arched window (blocked) in each bay flanking. Window in each bay of vestry set back to outer right. West (Entrance) Elevation: deep-set round-arched door at ground with blocked fanlight in full-height, slightly advanced narrow bay to centre. Round-arched window, set high, below gable in each bay flanking. North (Rear) Elevation: blank wall. East (Side) Elevation: vertically disposed sandstone heraldic panel centred below gablehead stack to advanced vestry in bay to centre; stone crucifix to gable apex of main block above. Small-pane timber-framed window with simple intersecting tracery to south; other church windows blocked; 12-pane timber sash and case windows to vestry. Caithness stone tiled roof; central square-plan timber vent; old Orkney grey slate to vestry; corniced harled stack to vestry gable. Interior: not seen, 1997. Walled Churchyard, Gatepiers and Outbuilding: rubble wall with rubble cope enclosing rectangular-plan graveyard surrounding church containing predominantly 19th century headstones; small, rectangular-plan shed with boarded door to west gable; graded Caithness stone tiled roof; stone ridge; replacement square-plan squared rubble gatepiers sited to south; s

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.