Sellafirth Church, Yell is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Church. 1 related planning application.

Sellafirth Church, Yell

WRENN ID
slow-portal-bittern
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1998
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

  1. 3-bay symmetrical Georgian-survival hall church of rectangular plan with gabled entrance porch and vestry projecting from W and E gables respectively, and birdcage bellcote to E gable. Harled rubble walls with droved sandstone ashlar margins to windows and doors. Rubble base course, projecting cills to windows.

W (ENTRANCE) GABLE: symmetrical, 3 closely-spaced bays, stugged sandstone ashlar steps to gabled porch projecting at centre with 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door in round-arched doorway; windows in flanking bays.

S ELEVATION: symmetrical, 3 widely-spaced and regularly-fenestrated bays.

E GABLE: projecting gabled vestry off-set to left of centre.

N ELEVATION: symmetrical, 3 widely-spaced and regularly-fenestrated bays.

13-pane fixed timber glazing to windows. Purple-grey slate roofs with stugged sandstone ashlar skew-copes and block skewputts. Stugged sandstone ashlar bell-cote comprising rectangular plinth to cote with corniced and ball-finialled pyramidal cap. Ball finial to apex of porch gable, stugged sandstone ashlar single-flue gablehead stack with circular can to vestry.

INTERIOR: raked floor to W half of hall with horizontally-boarded pews facing E to panelled and bow-fronted timber lectern at centre; open timber pews to E half of hall, facing W, with small classicatimber and granite war memorial centred on wall behind.

CHURCHYARD WALL: drystone rubble wall with triangular rubble cope forming rectangular enclosure with squat rubble piers to gate centred on W gable.

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