St Olaf's Episcopalian Church and Rectory, 12 Dundas Crescent, Kirkwall

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/03/1999 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Burgh Kirkwall NGR HY 45178 10623 Coordinates 345178, 1010623 — Alexander Ross, 1874-5, tower added, T S Peace, 1886. Hall church with 3-stage, pyramidal-roofed, castellated tower abutting gable to right with pointed-arched entrance at 1st stage; single storey link to rectory to right (S), (not included in listing). Squared and snecked rubble with polished sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; heavy lintel course to entrance; string course dividing stages of tower; eaves course to main church. Pointed-arched openings; hood-mould over main tripartite window; chamfered reveals to openings; moulded reveals to main tripartite; long and short margins; long and short quoins. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tripartite window with taller central light to main gable; cinquefoil window within circular recess to finialled gablehead above. 2-leaf boarded doors to W and S elevations at 1st stage of tower; trefoil-headed window at each stage above. N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-bay with trefoil-headed bipartite window in each bay. Stained glass, leaded windows. Purple Welsh slate roof; grey slate to spire; stone ridge; stone skews; roll-moulded skewputt to NW angle; uPVC rainwater goods. INTERIOR: open braced kingpost roof with round-arched braces on simple ashlar corbels; boarded timber dado; carved timber chancel screen with open upper sections, (1897); encaustic tiled chancel with floreate cast-iron supports to timber rail; timber-panelled and carved reredos (circa 1920) with blind gothic fretwork to upper panels; stone arch to chancel's N housing organ by G M Holdich, 1881; 2-seat sedilia to chancel's S wall; timber pews; ogee-arched tabernacle to E; carved timber hexagonal pulpit; hexagonal ash

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.