St Magnus's Church And Churchyard, Tingwall

St Magnus's Church is a hall church dating from 1788-90, with a mid-19th century porch. It is located in Tingwall and is a symmetrical building of four bays. The exterior walls are harled with some droved ashlar dressings. There is a bellcote on the eastern entrance gable.

The eastern gable is symmetrical, featuring a gabled porch centred at ground level, with a pointed-arched window above the door to the south. A gallery window is centred in the gablehead above this, and the bell is housed within a corniced round-headed bellcote on a rectangular plinth. The south elevation is also symmetrical, with tall round-arched windows flanking the centre, and smaller windows at ground level to each outer bay. The western gable is symmetrical, with an infilled round-arched door centred at ground level and a gallery window above. The north elevation again displays symmetry, with windows at ground level to the left and right. The windows are border-glazed with coloured and patterned glass, and the roof is covered with purple-grey slate, featuring droved ashlar skew-copes.

Inside, the entrance porch is lined with vertically-boarded timber. The inner entrance doors are timber, with an iron latch and a two-pane fanlight set within a semicircular arch, leading to an inner vestibule. This vestibule contains a timber gallery stair and a four-panel door to the main hall. The hall itself features grained timber fittings, vertically-boarded wainscoting with a stencilled frieze above, and horizontally-boarded pews. Timber Tuscan columns support a raked U-plan gallery with a panelled front. A clock, made by A T Anderson of Lerwick, is located centrally within the gallery. The ceiling is plastered and includes architraved circular ventilators. A raised pulpit platform is centrally located on the south wall, with a panelled timber balustrade surmounted by a brass rail and urn finials. The pulpit itself is semi-octagonal, panelled, and accessed by a timber stair with cast-iron balusters on the right; behind the sounding board is a margined blind arch flanked by fluted pilasters that rise to a corniced circular canopy topped with an urn finial. Marble memorials to the Turnbull family flank the pulpit.

The churchyard is enclosed by rubble boundary walls, harled and harl-pointed, with a triangular rubble cope. Within the kirkyard are various gravestones and memorials dating from the 17th century onwards. A grey granite memorial to those who died in the Great War stands near the entrance gates, with an additional plaque commemorating the Second World War. A red sandstone gothic memorial to the Reverend John Turnbull, signed W Munro on the base, is located to the south of the church, enclosed by a stugged sandstone wall with droved ashlar copes surmounted by a railing with fleur-de-lys finials. A simple classical sandstone monument to John Bruce, dated 1805, is also present. To the southeast is an ashlar sarcophagus dating from circa 1700, carved with two coats of arms and emblems of mortality. Other, later enclosures from circa 1900, feature cast-iron railings. Two-leaf iron entrance gates with arrow finials are located on the south wall, flanked by square, cement-rendered and lined gatepiers with pyramidal caps. Additional quadrant walls with matching piers extend to the left and right. A further gate to the west is comprised of two-leaf cast-iron gates flanked by square, cement-rendered piers with pyramidal caps.