St John's Kirk, Balta Sound, Unst

Dated 1827, substantially reduced and rebuilt 1959. 3 x 1-bay hall church. Harl-pointed rubble and harled walls. Some droved sandstone dressings and concrete dressings, margins, doorpiece and belfry. Base course, margined openings to S elevation, projecting cills to windows.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gable to left with tall round-arched window at centre; entrance door in square 3-stage tower at right comprising round-arched surround with keystone containing 2-leaf panelled timber entrance door and radial fanlight, oculus centred above, concrete arcaded open-work belfry to upper stage.

E ELEVATION: 4-bay elevation with bay to outer left obscured by advanced tower elevation comprising round-arched window at ground with upper stages matching S elevation; tall round-arched windows in bays to right.

N GABLE: tall round-arched window at centre.

E ELEVATION: single tall round-arched window to right of centre; elevation to left of centre obscured by church hall addition.

22-pane timber fixed-lights to principal windows, stained glass to N window. Modern concrete tile roof.

INTERIOR: 2-leaf panelled timber inner entrance doors with glazed uppers. Timber fittings to nave including vertically-boarded wainscoting to nave, horizontally-boarded pews, and modern polygonal timber pulpit.

CHURCH HALL: harl-pointed rubble T-plan hall comprising 2-bay elevation to W, blank gables to N and S, cement-rendered and lined link to church.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: small rubble-walled enclosure to E of church (marking extent of original church), advanced at centre of E wall with infilled lower portion of former entrance door. Rough rubble wall to road with stone urns on square concrete gatepiers.