Fetlar Church, Fetlar

Fetlar Church, built in 1790, is a traditional hall church with a rectangular plan and consists of two bays. The exterior features harled walls with dressed sandstone ashlar details. The entrance gable on the east side has a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door, a semicircular fanlight at ground level, and a 16-pane round-arched fixed-light above. There is a stugged ashlar gabled belfry that houses a bell in a round-arched opening. The north and south elevations are identical, each with round-arched windows that have timber traceried coloured glazing in every bay. The west gable has a window that matches those on the side elevations, positioned at the upper level. There is a gabled vestry wing projecting from the south elevation, which includes a vertically-boarded timber door, a 4-pane timber fixed-light, and a 17th-century memorial panel that is carved with an inscription and coat-of-arms.

The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and features ashlar skew copes. The vestry has a harled single-flue apex stack that is coped and topped with an octagonal can.

The kirkyard is enclosed by a harl-pointed rubble wall. Within the graveyard, there is a mid-18th-century classical monument dedicated to James Bonar, dated 1752, and Jean Smith, dated 1737. This monument resembles an aedicule and is set on a substantial semi-pyramidal rubble structure. It features an inscribed slab with flanking engaged Corinthianesque columns that support a steep pediment with pinnacles, possibly intended for ball finials, and a carved tympanum depicting a coat-of-arms flanked by angels.

The interior was not seen in 1997.