Flotta Church, Hoy

The War Memorial at Flotta Church in Hoy dates from around 1782 and incorporates earlier materials. It is a rectangular-plan Church of Scotland building with five bays and a small rectangular porch located at the center of the west elevation. The church features a plain symmetrical design with narrow round-arched windows in the main block. The exterior is harled with stone dressings and has coped gables.

On the south elevation, there are five bays with a window in each bay. The porch is set back to the outer right, with the entrance to the right and a window to the left. The north elevation has two widely spaced bays, each with a window. The west elevation features steps leading up to a round-arched main entrance at the center of the gable end, which has a two-leaf boarded timber door and flanking windows. The east elevation shows the gable end of the porch projecting to the center, with a window set back to the left of the main block's gable end. A small bellcote is located at the apex of the gable, although the roof is missing.

The church has multi-pane fixed light timber windows with 'Gothick' Y tracery at the apex of the astragals, and the roof is covered with Welsh slate, while the porch has Caithness slate.

Inside, there is a narrow entrance vestibule at the west end, with a boarded timber dado throughout. The windows have splayed reveals, and there are plain boarded timber pews. A panelled octagonal pulpit is present, with a suspended sounding board featuring a conical ball-finialled apex. Two stained glass windows flank the pulpit at the east end, depicting Saint Paul and the Good Shepherd, both dated 1913. There is also a small organ made by Robert Dunlop of Glasgow.

The war memorial, likely from the early 1920s, has a square plan on a stepped base made of pink granite in two contrasting shades. It features a slightly tapered pier with a crenellated cornice and a cross above, inscribed with 'IHS', the Greek abbreviation for Jesus, on a rounded plinth. The east side of the pier is inscribed with the names of those from the island parish who lost their lives in the Great War from 1914 to 1918, while fatalities from the Second World War are recorded on the base.

Surrounding the churchyard to the south, east, and west is a boundary wall made of coursed rubble, partially featuring slab coping. There are two gateways to the west, both with square-plan gatepiers. The gatepier nearest the church has deep rubble pyramid coping above a band course, while there is an identical single pier at the pedestrian gateway to the east of the church, both with replacement wrought-iron gates.