St Ninian's Church And Gatepiers, Bigton

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/03/1997 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Dunrossness NGR HU 38439 21304 Coordinates 438439, 1121304 — Dated 1905. 5 x 2 bay symmetrical hall church with gabled entrance porch to S. Harl pointed and lined rubble walls with stugged and droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single storey, 3 bay symmetrical porch projecting at ground; centre bay advanced with 2 leaf vertically boarded round arched timber entrance door with 3 pane fanlight rising into gable breaking eaves, flanking round arched windows with 5 pane timber fixed lights; cement rendered infill to side windows. Pair of round arched blinded windows rising over porch in gable behind; blind narrow round arched window in gablehead, gabled ashlar belfry (with bell in round arched opening) on rectangular plinth at apex. E AND W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 5 bays, regularly fenestrated, tall round arched window with 13 pane timber fixed lights. N (REAR) ELEVATION: harled, piend roofed vestry with 4 pane timber sash and case windows projecting at ground. Gable behind matching S gable but with single flue ashlar stack at apex. Small-pane glazing to fixed-lights, or 4-pane timber sash and case, all with Y-traceried upper panes. Purple grey slate roof. Droved ashlar skew copes, stepped at median, and with gabletted and bracketted skewputts. INTERIOR: tiled vestibule floor and vertically boarded timber wainscoting. Pair of 2 leaf, 4 panel inner entrance doors to hall (now sub divided 1996). Timber fittings to hall includes vertically boarded wainscoting and pews, panelled pulpit centring N wall, fronted by balustrade with ball finialled, stop chamfered newels; 4 panel vestry door to left. Timber lined ceiling with exposed rafters bearing

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.