Uyeasound Church, Unst

Uyeasound Church, located in Unst, was built in 1843 and is a symmetrical plain Italianate hall church. It features a wide-gabled, three by three-bay hall with a square plan, an entrance in the south gable, and a gabled single-storey vestry wing centered on the north gable. The principal elevation is cement-rendered and lined, while the side and rear walls are harled, with droved and painted ashlar margins around the windows and entrance door. The windows have projecting cills.

The south entrance gable is symmetrical, with the center bay slightly advanced. It has a round-arched entrance that includes a two-leaf timber door with a border-glazed fanlight above, and the date is inscribed in the keystone. The center bay breaks the eaves and features a square plinth topped by an open-work bellcote with a bell, finished with a bell-cast and ball-finialled pyramidal cap.

Both the west and east elevations are symmetrical and have regularly spaced windows. The north rear elevation has a shallow-gabled vestry wing that is advanced at the center of the principal gable. It includes a vertically-boarded timber door flanked by hoppered border-glazed timber windows on the west side, a window to the left of center in the north gable, and a bipartite hoppered and border-glazed window on the east side.

The principal windows have modern border-glazed timber fixed-lights. The roof is low-pitched with tarred felt and features square ventilators at the ridge, which is terminated to the north by a cupola and a harled two-flue gablehead stack, coped and with circular cans. The vestry is clad in corrugated sheet.

Inside, the church has all timber fittings, including a pulpit in a balustraded enclosure located in the north wall beneath a circular skylight surrounded by a decorative pelmet. The hall features wide-boarded wainscoting and a raked floor with horizontally boarded pews. The center pews are integrated with square columns that support continuous roof beams running north-south, while the outer pews are angled toward the center.

The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of a harl-pointed rubble wall that encloses the church, canted to the north with a rubble-infilled gate in the northwest wall. The square gatepiers in the south wall are rendered rubble with concrete caps.