St Peter's and Victoria Street Church, Victoria Street, Stromness

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 18/12/1971 Last Date Amended 24/03/1998 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Burgh Stromness NGR HY 25323 08993 Coordinates 325323, 1008993 — Richard Spence, dated 1862; church hall circa 1897. 3-bay gable-ended rectangular-plan church built on raised ground set back from road; birdcage bellcote with round-arched openings and short stone spire on consoled gablehead support; 'nave' bay defined by shouldered square-headed buttresses; pyramidal-capped octagonal angle piers. Stugged red sandstone ashlar with cement-rendered and lined dressings. Base course; cill course, continuous as hood-mould over door; long and short border to eaves course. Tudor-arched openings. Chamfered reveals to windows; stone mullions; long and short margins. Church Hall to rear, (W); gatepiers, wall and railings to E (roadside). E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-tier stone flight to wide, 2-leaf timber panelled doors; Tudor-arched fanlight; date stone to arch apex; tall 3-light mullioned simply traceried window above; gablehead bellcote. Window in each 'aisle' bay flanking. W (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled elevation with tall, simply traceried window in each bay; corniced block to gablehead above. N AND S (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 2-storey, 5-bay regularly fenestrated elevations; square-headed windows at ground; tall, pointed-arched windows above. Fixed, timber-framed lying pane windows; leaded stained glass windows to W end. Grey slate; stone ridge; leaded square ridge vents; cement skews; uPVC rainwater goods. INTERIOR: fluted cast-iron columns with acanthus capitals supporting timber panelled U-plan gallery around E end; tiered timber pews; boarded dado at each level; architraved timber panelled doors; timber perron staircase to central timber panelled pulpit

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.