Baptist Church, Victoria Street, Kirkwall

The Baptist Church on Victoria Street in Kirkwall was designed by T S Peace and completed in 1888. It is a three-bay hall church with a gable end, featuring a pitched-roofed entrance porch, triple windows, and a large circular window (oculus) in the gable. The main gable is flanked by slightly advanced, gabletted three-stage buttresses, and there is a stone crucifix at the top of the gable.

The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include a base course, a lintel cornice above the porch, and a continuous cill course below the windows at the first stage of the buttresses. There is a string course at the second stage, which acts as hood moulds over the windows, and a cornice below the buttress gablets. The round-arched openings have long and short margins, chamfered reveals, aproned cills, and paired nook-shafts at the doorway.

On the principal (west) elevation, there is a short stone flight leading to two-leaf boarded doors in the central bay of the porch. Above the doors, there is a cast date and inscriptions, with a trefoil finial atop the gable. Above the porch, there are triple windows with a taller central light, the large oculus in the gable, and the crucifix at the gablehead.

The south elevation is blank, while the rear (east) elevation features a single-storey, four-bay rectangular-plan hall connected to the main church on the west side. Each bay has a window facing east, with blank gabled end bays. The main block behind has a large traceried window, a small round-headed boarded door in the gable above, and a small block stack at the gablehead.

The church has timber-framed and leaded windows, rooflights on the south pitch, and is topped with purple slate roofs, stone ridges, and stone skews. The rainwater goods are predominantly cast iron. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.