Eday Church, Eday is a Grade C listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 2008. Church.
Eday Church, Eday
- WRENN ID
- gentle-kitchen-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 2008
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Eday Church, built in 1858, is a single-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan former United Presbyterian church featuring a simple gabled design. The exterior is finished with roughcast-rendered masonry and includes regularly spaced depressed-arch windows, which have prominent keystones on the side and rear elevations. Access is provided by steps leading to a two-leaf timber-panelled door located in the centre of the southeast gable, above which is a pointed-arch traceried window. The outer bays of the gable are adorned with tall, narrow, round-arched windows.
The church has Gothick-arched small-pane glazing in fixed timber windows and is topped with a slate roof.
Inside, the church boasts a well-preserved interior that includes a slightly bowed gallery with classical detailing, tongue and groove dado panelling, and boarded pews. A raised pulpit with a decorative chair is situated behind it, and original gaslight fittings remain, although some lights have been replaced.
The boundary is marked by a drystone rubble wall that encloses the graveyard, featuring square-plan gatepiers topped with stepped cope caps.
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