Tingwall Kirk

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - see notes Date Added 13/08/1971 Local Authority Shetland Islands Planning Authority Shetland Islands Parish Tingwall NGR HU 41904 43754 Coordinates 441904, 1143754 — 1788-90, with mid-19th century porch. 4 x 1-bay symmetrical hall church with bellcote to entrance gable at E. Harled walls with some droved ashlar dressings. E (ENTRANCE) GABLE: symmetrical, gabled porch centred at ground with pointed-arched window in gable and entrance door to S; gallery window centred in gablehead above; bell contained within corniced round-headed bellcote on rectangular plinth at gablehead. S ELEVATION: symmetrical, tall round-arched windows flanking centre, windows at ground to outer bays. W GABLE: symmetrical; infilled round-arched door centred at ground with gallery window in gablehead above. N ELEVATION: symmetrical, windows at ground to left and right. Border-glazed fixed-lights with coloured and patterned glass. Purple-grey slate roof with droved ashlar skew-copes. INTERIOR: vertically-boarded timber lining to entrance porch, vertically-boarded timber 2-leaf inner entrance doors with iron latch and 2-pane fanlight in semicircular arch-head accessing inner vestibule with vertically-boarded timber wainscoting to timber gallery stair, and 4-panel door to main hall. Grained timber fittings to hall; vertically-boarded wainscoting with stencilled frieze above, horizontally-boarded pews, timber Tuscan columns supporting raked U-plan gallery with panelled front, clock at centre by A T Anderson of Lerwick. Plaster ceiling with architraved circular ventilators. Raised pulpit platform centred on S wall, panelled timber balustrade surmounted by brass rail and urn finials; semi-octagonal panelled pulpit accessed by timber stair at right with cast-ir

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.