Reawick Congregational Church is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Church.

Reawick Congregational Church

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 October 1977
Type
Church
OS grid reference
HU 316 448
Coordinates
60.18655, -1.43156
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Reawick Congregational Church, dated 1863, is a symmetrical hall church with a layout that features a hall oriented east-west. It has a gabled entrance porch and a vestry to the east, along with a pulpit recess to the west, forming a cruciform plan. The church is constructed with harled rubble walls.

The east elevation is symmetrical, featuring a two-bay gabled entrance porch and vestry that are advanced at the center. There are lancet windows in each bay, with a date stone positioned between them. At the apex, there is a gabled bellcote on a rectangular plinth. The corners are supported by angle buttresses, and pointed-arched doors are located in the side elevations, although the north door has been infilled. The hall's elevation appears blank on both the right and left sides.

The north and south elevations are symmetrical, each having two bays with lancet windows and a triangular vent in the gablehead.

The west elevation is also symmetrical, with a two-bay gable advanced at the center. It features pointed-arched windows with chamfered arrises in each bay and a triangular vent centered in the gablehead. The hall's elevation appears blank on both the left and right sides.

The church includes 11-pane fixed-lights in the lancets and border-glazed windows with colored glass on the west side. The roof is covered with grey slate and has harled skew copes.

Inside, there are timber pews made with wide horizontal boards, featuring vertically-boarded high backs and panelled ends, with one pew centered at the rear. The pulpit is panelled and raised on a platform to the west. An organ, built in 1906 by W Doherty & Co of Canada, is centered to the east, and there is a panelled enclosure with a cast-iron and timber balustrade.

Local climate

Reawick Congregational Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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