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

Dated 1858. Single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan simple gabled former UP church with depressed arch windows. Roughcast-rendered masonry. Regular fenestration of depressed-arch windows with prominent keystones to side and rear elevations. Steps to 2-leaf timber-panelled door in centre of SE gable; pointed-arch traceried window above; tall, narrow, round-arched windows to outer bays of gable.

Gothick-arched small-pane glazing in fixed timber windows. Slate roof.

INTERIOR: good interior with slightly bowed and classically detailed gallery, tongue and groove dado panelling and boarded pews.

Raised pulpit with decorative chair behind. Original gaslight fittings with replacement lights

BOUNDARY WALL: drystone rubble wall enclosing graveyard; square-plan gatepiers with stepped cope caps.

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