New Church, North Ronaldsay

New Church in North Ronaldsay was built between 1845 and 1852, with a session house added around 1900. It is a four-bay, plain, symmetrical, rectangular-plan galleried church featuring a pyramidal capped bellcote on the east gable. The adjoining session house has three bays and is set back to the east, connected by a single linking bay. The exterior is harled over rubble, with the west side cement-rendered and lined.

On the south elevation, there is a boarded door in the center bay, with a window in each bay of the main church block to the left. To the right, there is a boarded door set to the left of center with a letterbox fanlight, and a window in each remaining bay. The north elevation is a blank wall. The east elevation features a blank gabled wall of the session house, offset to the right at ground level, with a gablehead stack above. The main church has a centered gallery window in the gable, and there are rectangular openings on each face of the gablehead bellcote above. The west elevation has a centered, high-set window in the gable, with tall round-headed windows flanking each bay.

The church has 24-pane timber sash and case windows, and fixed leaded round-headed stained glass windows at the west end. The session house features 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The church and linking bay have Caithness stone slates, while the session house has purple Welsh slate, with stone ridges, stone skews, and cement skews at the west end. The bellcote is corniced, and there is a redundant corniced gablehead stack on the session house.

Inside, the church has a plain interior with paired cast-iron columns supporting a timber-panelled gallery along the east end. A stone flight in the northeast angle provides access to the gallery, and there is a two-leaf timber panelled door beneath the gallery leading into the main body of the church. The floor is timber boarded, and there are stained timber pews. The pulpit at the west end is plain and timber panelled, with a staircase to the left. An oak communion table and a portable timber organ are present, along with two commemorative plaques along the north wall.