Old Olnafirth Church And Churchyard, Voe

Old Olnafirth Church and Churchyard in Voe dates from around 1700. It has a T-shaped layout, featuring a rectangular gabled hall church with round-arched entrance doors centered in the gables, and a two-storey gabled aisle at the rear (north). The walls are made of lime harled pointed rubble, with some dressed sandstone elements.

The southeast elevation is nearly symmetrical, consisting of four bays with the inner bays offset to the left. The ground level has rubble infilled openings, while the upper level features margined windows with chamfered arrises in the inner bays. The outer bays at ground level also have margined windows with iron shutter hinges.

The east gable is symmetrical, with a round-arched margined door at ground level and a margined window with chamfered arrises above it in the gable. The aisle elevation is recessed on the right, featuring a single window to the left at the upper level.

The north (rear) elevation is symmetrical, with the aisle gable at the center. It has stugged sandstone ashlar voussoirs surrounding a round-arched entrance door at ground level. Above this door is an architraved armorial panel for the Gifford of Busta, inscribed with "T G and E M, 1714." There is a small square window to the left in the gablehead, along with the remains of an apex stack above.

The west gable matches the east gable and includes a margined window. The aisle elevation on this side is partially ruinous, with remnants of a stone gallery stair in the re-entrant and the lower portion of a margined window at the upper level on the outer left.

Inside, there are joist holes in the north and south walls of the hall, indicating the presence of timber galleries to the east and west of the center. The north wall has rubble infill at the upper level. There are carved memorial slabs on the east and west walls of the aisle, as well as a fireplace in the upper level of the north gable.

The kirkyard is enclosed by a harl pointed rubble wall to the south and west, while the east wall features modern harling and coping. Square rubble gatepiers with pyramidal caps are located at the center of the south wall. A rubble dwarf wall with a stugged ashlar cope and cast iron railing, dating from around 1835, encloses a memorial to the Adie family to the south of the church.