St Clement's Hall, St Olaf Street, Lerwick is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Church hall. 4 related planning applications.

St Clement's Hall, St Olaf Street, Lerwick

WRENN ID
blind-outpost-mist
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 August 1996
Type
Church hall
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Clement's Hall, located on St Olaf Street in Lerwick, was built between 1909 and 1911 by T L Bruce. This church hall features a seven by one-bay gabled design and includes a three-stage square plan tower at the southwest corner. A modern two-storey addition obscures the eastern gable. The principal elevation and tower are constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked stone, with stugged and polished dressings, while the side elevations are harled with cement dressings.

The tower has a base course and battered angle buttresses at the first stage, with cornices over the first and second stages, each featuring round-arched windows on the south and west faces. The third stage includes blind roundels below a string course on each face and tall bipartite windows with round-arched lights, topped by a cornice and crenellated parapet.

The west elevation, which is the principal elevation, has a gable end with a base course. At the center, there is a round-arched, vertically-boarded two-leaf timber entrance door with a moulded surround. Above this door is a segmental-arched four-light window with a cavetto-moulded cill and hoodmould.

The northeast elevation consists of seven bays, each with tall round-arched windows featuring long and short dressings. The southeast elevation has five bays with round-arched windows, also with long and short dressings, located to the right of the tower. The west window features leaded stained glass, while the rest of the windows have modern glazing, except for the four-pane fixed lights in the upper stage of the tower. The roof is covered in purple-grey slate with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, and there are matching ridge tiles on the dormered timber ventilators, which are slated and have louvered gables. The gables are crowstepped and adorned with Celtic crosses at their apexes.

The entrance is flanked by panelled square ashlar pedestals, which once supported lamp standards, featuring rustic bases and moulded caps. There are concrete-covered steps leading to the door from stugged and droved square ashlar gatepiers with bases and pyramidal caps. These are flanked by a bull-faced dwarf wall with an ashlar cope, which is terminated to the north and south by matching piers. A random rubble boundary wall with a saddleback cope is located to the south, while a modern wall is present to the north.

Inside, the hall features vertically-boarded timber wainscoting, a round-arched niche in the east wall with flanking four-panel timber doors, and an open timber roof supported by trusses resting on stone corbels.

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