Baptist Church, Victoria Street, Kirkwall

T S Peace, dated 1888. 3-bay gable-ended hall church with pitched-roofed entrance porch, triple windows and large oculus to gable; slightly advanced gabletted 3-stage buttresses flanking main gable; stone crucifix to gablehead block. Squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; lintel cornice to porch; cill course below windows continuous at 1st stage of buttresses; string course at 2nd stage, continuous as hood moulds over windows; cornice below buttress gablets. Long and short margins to round-arched openings; chamfered reveals to main windows; aproned cills; paired nook-shafts to doorway.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: short stone flight to 2-leaf boarded doors to porch in bay to centre; cast date and inscriptions to overdoor space; trefoil finial to gable above; small window to each return. Triple windows, with taller central light, above porch; large oculus to gable; crucifix to gablehead above.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan hall along rear elevation with link to main church to W; windows in each bay to E. Gabled, end bays, blank. Large traceried window to main block behind; small round-headed boarded door to gable above; small block stack to gablehead.

Timber-framed and leaded windows; rooflights to S pitch. Purple slate roofs; stone ridge; stone skews; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR; not seen, 1998.