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
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 2008
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- HY 561 328
- Coordinates
- 59.1798, -2.76827
- 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.
Local climate
Eday Church, Eday sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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