Westray Parish Old Church

Westray Parish Old Church is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan church built in 1845. The exterior is harled.

The east elevation features a symmetrical design with an advanced central gabled porch, a small central window, and boarded timber doors on the left and right returns. There are ground floor windows to the right and left of the porch, with smaller windows centered above. A small central slatted ventilation opening is located below the eaves.

The south elevation has three regularly placed windows. The west elevation includes tall, pointed arched windows on the right and left, featuring intersecting tracery, and a small central opening below the eaves that is now blocked. There is also an advanced central gabled porch with a window to the right and advanced porches at the re-entrant angles, each with a boarded timber door and swept roofs.

The north elevation mirrors the south with three regularly placed windows. The church predominantly features 24-pane timber sash and case windows, along with smaller 16-pane windows. The roof is part piended and covered with Caithness slate, with a coped gable end stack at the west porch and a circular can.

Inside, the church has yellow painted walls and an entrance hallway to the east, with a stair to the north leading to a gallery. There are two doors leading into the church and three sets of simple timber pews. An elevated pulpit is located to the west, with flanking steps, a panelled timber design, and an ogee canopy over the sounding board, which is surmounted by a carved dove. Boarded shutters are present on the flanking pointed-arched windows, and an architraved boarded door is centered below the windows. The east gallery is panelled and supported by stop-chamfered timber columns. All woodwork is painted light blue and white, and the ceiling is boarded and ribbed.

The boundary walls are made of rubble and are coped, surrounding the north, east, and west sides, and incorporating an ancillary structure in the northwest corner. This structure is a single-storey shed with a boarded timber door to the east, rubble walls, and a corrugated asbestos roof.