Westray Parish Old Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 04/02/2000 Local Authority Orkney Islands Planning Authority Orkney Islands Parish Westray NGR HY 45669 46163 Coordinates 345669, 1046163 — 1845. Single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan church. Harled. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation. Advanced, central gabled porch; small central window; boarded timber doors to left and right returns. Ground floor window to right and left of porch; smaller windows centred above. Small central, slatted ventilation opening below eaves. S ELEVATION: 3 regularly placed windows. W ELEVATION: tall, pointed arched window to right and left; intersecting tracery. Small, central opening (now blocked) below eaves. Advanced, central gabled porch; window to right. Advanced porch to re-entrant angles; boarded timber door to each; swept roofs. N ELEVATION: 3 regularly placed windows. Predominantly 24-pane timber sash and case windows and smaller 16-pane windows. Part piended, Caithness slate roof. Coped gable end stack to W porch; circular can. INTERIOR: yellow painted walls. Entrance hallway to E; stair to N leading to gallery. 2 doors lead into church; 3 sets of simple timber pews. Elevated pulpit to W; flanking steps. Panelled timber pulpit; ogee canopy to sounding board; surmounted by carved dove. Boarded shutters to flanking pointed-arched windows; architraved boarded door centred below windows. Panelled gallery to E, on stop-chamfered timber columns. All woodwork painted light blue and white. Boarded and ribbed timber ceiling. BOUNDARY WALLS AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURE Rubble coped boundary walls to N, E and W incorporating ancillary structure to NW corner. Single storey shed; boarded timber door to E; rubble walls; corrugated asbestos roof. — Ecclesiastical building, in use as such (2000). Westray Parish Church, a

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.