Paterson Church, School Place, Kirkwall

1. 2-storey, 3-bay gable-ended hall church with slightly advance central bay and single storey 2-bay hall to rear; central columnar traceried window; shouldered, square-plan buttresses dividing bays; finialled, pinnacle, square-plan bellcotes to buttresses flanking central bay; similar, arcaded gablehead bellcote with blind oculus to corbelled base. Polished sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; cill course to flanking windows, continuous as hoodmould over door; hood moulds over windows (brackets to flanking windows); brackets and cope to eaves course. Round-arched openings; columnar mullions to central traceried window; aproned cills; single nook shafts to doorway.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone flight of steps to central moulded doorway; 2-leaf timber-panelled door; timber-panelled infilled fanlight; 4-light window below gablehead bellcote; tall window in each bay flanking.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 7-bay: square-headed window in each bay at ground (timber panelled 2-leaf door with blocked, dated '1847' fanlight in opening to outer left); divided round-arched window with central circular light in each bay at 1st floor.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 7-bay, identical to SE; timber-panelled door with rectangular fanlight at ground in bay to outer right.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded door with small-pane fanlight in bay to right with window in bay to left to NW elevation of single storey hall in bay to centre; 2 evenly disposed 3-light windows with central circular light; blind round-arched opening to gablehead above.

Leaded, stained glass windows; 12-pane timber sash and case windows to hall. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: MAIN CHURCH: encaustic-tiled vestibule with twin dog-leg stone staircases to gallery; cast-iron balusters with timber handrails; cast-iron columnar supports to U-plan timber gallery with carved blind arcade; timber pews; central timber-panelled organ case against NE wall; square-plan piers supporting triple lamp standard and decorative cast-iron balusters flanking steps to carved timber pulpit, (1871) and chair; organ behind; fielded ceiling with pierced circular ventilators. HALL: timber skirting boards and architraves; timber-panelled shutters and doors; cornice extant; fitted timber cupboards with uniting mutule cornice.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: squared rubble stepped wall with ridges ashlar cope; decorative cast-iron railings; similar gates with finialled spanning semi-circular arch.