Church Of Scotland, King Street, Kirkwall

Dated 1893. Hall church with gothic details; 2-storey, 5-bay hall/vestry to rear; tall, shouldered, angle buttresses flanking main elevation; bracketed, square-plan, gableted bellcote with pyramidal roof to gablehead. Stugged and snecked sandstone ashlar (random rubble to hall) with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; hood mould, continuous as string course over windows. Pointed-arched openings; chamfered mullions and roll-moulded architraves to windows; aproned cills.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay; stone steps to central, gabled entrance porch with gabled diagonal buttresses flanking; triple nook-shafts flanking deep-set, 2-leaf boarded doors; decorative fanlight; rose window over paired tall, round-arched bipartite windows to gable above; bellcote to gablehead. Tall bipartite window in each bay flanking door.

NE AND SW (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 5-bay; window in each bay with shouldered buttress dividing bays.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: boarded door with letterbox fanlight to left of centre at ground. Hall projecting at right angles to right of centre. 5 small pointed-arched windows, set close, to gable; gablehead stack above.

HALL: SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tall window to canted centred, full-height stair tower; boarded door with small-pane fanlight in each return. Window at ground in bays flanking; window at each floor in bays to outer left and right.

Fixed aluminium-framed windows to church (some stained glass); timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights to hall. Purple Welsh slate; grey slate to piended stair tower to hall; stone skews; stone ridges; tall harled and brick stacks to hall; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: carved timber gallery along NW end; tiered timber pews to gallery; herringbone boarded and fielded ceiling; decorative circular ceiling ventilators; carved timber, drip-moulded, arched braces with bracket supports; timber-panelled, pointed-arched doors with timber architraves; boarded dado; timber skirting boards and architraves to hall; cornices extant.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATES: low rendered walls with ridged ashlar cope; fleur-de-lys-headed wrought-iron railings; similar single gate to right hand side; 2-leaf central gates with square-headed, wrought-iron arch.