Parish Church, Fair Isle

The Parish Church in Fair Isle, designed by Sinclair & Hardie in 1892, is a three by two bay symmetrical hall church. It features regularly spaced windows on its side elevations, with an entrance porch and a vestry that project from the west and east gables, respectively. The church is constructed from bull-faced rubble walls, accented with stugged and droved dressings, all of which are painted.

On the west gable, there is a gabled single-storey porch that projects from the center. It has a two-leaf vertically boarded timber entrance door with a plate glass fanlight above, along with a secondary vertically boarded door on the south side of the porch. Flanking the porch are round-arched windows, and there is a narrow louvered opening centered in the gablehead. At the apex, a gabled bellcote sits on a rectangular plinth.

The east gable features four-pane timber sash and case windows that center the vestry elevations, with a vertically boarded timber door to the left of the window on the south elevation. Each bay of the principal gable has round-arched windows that rise into the gablehead, with a narrow louvered opening centered above. The side elevations of the hall have four-pane fixed lights, and the east gable contains stained glass windows depicting local scenes, created by Patrick Ross Smith in 1995. The church has purple-grey slate roofs, which are piended to the vestry, and painted ashlar skew copes with bracketed skewputts.

Inside, the church features timber fittings, including a four-panel inner entrance door, vertically boarded wainscoting, a ceiling lining, and pews that face and flank a panelled pulpit, which is centered on the east wall and has steps leading up to it. To the left of the pulpit is a four-panel vestry door.

The boundary wall surrounding the church is made of random rubble and topped with a triangular rubble cope. There are stugged sandstone square gatepiers with concrete pyramidal caps located centrally to the west.