Sellafirth Church, Yell

Sellafirth Church in Yell was built in 1862 and is a three-bay symmetrical hall church with a rectangular plan. It features a gabled entrance porch and a vestry that projects from the west and east gables, respectively, along with a birdcage bellcote on the east gable. The church has harled rubble walls with droved sandstone ashlar margins around the windows and doors, a rubble base course, and projecting cills for the windows.

The west gable, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical with three closely spaced bays. It has stugged sandstone ashlar steps leading to a gabled porch at the center, which contains a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door set in a round-arched doorway, flanked by windows in the adjacent bays. The south elevation is also symmetrical, featuring three widely spaced and regularly arranged bays. The east gable has a projecting gabled vestry that is offset to the left of the center. The north elevation mirrors the south, with three widely spaced and regularly fenestrated bays.

The windows have 13-pane fixed timber glazing, and the roof is covered with purple-grey slate, featuring stugged sandstone ashlar skew-copes and block skewputts. The bell-cote is made of stugged sandstone ashlar, with a rectangular plinth and a corniced pyramidal cap topped with a ball finial. There is also a ball finial at the apex of the porch gable and a stugged sandstone ashlar single-flue gablehead stack with a circular can on the vestry.

Inside, the church has a raked floor in the western half of the hall, where horizontally-boarded pews face east towards a panelled and bow-fronted timber lectern at the center. The eastern half of the hall contains open timber pews facing west, with a small classic timber and granite war memorial centered on the wall behind.

The churchyard is enclosed by a drystone rubble wall topped with a triangular rubble cope, forming a rectangular enclosure with squat rubble piers at the gate centered on the west gable.