St Andrew's Kirk, Tankerness

St Andrew's Kirk in Tankerness is a church built in 1801, enlarged in 1827, and altered around 1915. It features a plain L-plan design with four bays and a gabled hall. The church has a pitched-roofed porch and a round-arched bellcote at the west end. The exterior is harled and includes stepped buttresses, a band course on the bellcote, and round-arched openings.

On the west elevation, there is a stop-chamfered door surround leading to a centrally located gabled porch, which has deep-set double boarded doors. There are windows on each side of the porch and an oculus above in the main gable. The bellcote, topped with a weather vane, is situated at the gablehead. To the outer right, there is a two-bay projection that forms the short arm of the L, featuring a timber door with a rectangular fanlight and a bipartite window to the left.

The east elevation showcases a large round-arched window with simple intersecting tracery in the main gable, topped with a crucifix finial. To the left of this, there is a bipartite window in the short arm of the L.

On the north side elevation, there is a window in each bay, with a buttress between the outer two bays. The south side elevation has a window in each of the two bays of the gabled projection to the right of center, and a window in each bay to the left, separated by a buttress.

The church features a leaded stained glass window at the east end, while the other windows are plain leaded. The roof is graded stone slate with a red clay ridge, and it has replaced cement skews with moulded skewputts, a share-plan plain ridge ventilator, and uPVC rainwater goods.

Inside, the church is a plain hall with a boarded dado and a boarded, coffered ceiling that includes a centered circular vent. At the east end, there is a carved timber altar and an octagonal pulpit raised on a platform, along with timber pews. A memorial stained glass window at the east end depicts the Crucifixion and is dedicated to Jessie McTavish, the mother of Rev. John McTavish, who served as the minister from 1907 to 1928. Additionally, there is a bracketed and pedimented marble memorial on the north wall.