Manse, Aith Church, Aith is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997.
Manse, Aith Church, Aith
- WRENN ID
- empty-wall-khaki
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Aith Church, built around 1900, is a group of buildings that includes a mission church and a manse. The church is a 1 and 2-storey structure with five bays across the front and two storeys, while the manse to the east has three bays and is symmetrical. The walls of both buildings are harled with painted margins.
The south elevation of the church is asymmetrical, featuring an entrance door with a margined blind arch-head that is offset to the right in the outer left bay. There are lancet windows in the bays to the right, with buttresses dividing the bays and angle buttresses at the corners. The west elevation is symmetrical and has a regular arrangement of lancet windows on the first floor. The east elevation is also symmetrical, highlighted by a central three-light lancet window. The church has a modern grey slate roof and modern glazing throughout.
Inside the church, there is vertically-boarded timber wainscoting, a timber stair in the entrance hall leading to a vestry above, and four-panel timber doors. The hall features timber fittings, including pews, a balustraded platform to the east, and an open timber roof with stop-chamfered members.
The manse's east elevation is symmetrical with a gabled porch that projects at the ground in the center bay. It has an entrance door flanked by narrow sidelights and bracketted skewputts. The flanking bays contain bipartite windows, and there is regular fenestration on the first floor. The south gable has a single window at ground level on the left. The west elevation features a 2-storey flat-roofed wing that is irregularly fenestrated and projects at the center. The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass in the bipartite windows and a 4-pane pattern in the other windows. The manse also has a modern grey slate roof, with skew copes removed, harled apex stacks, and circular cans on top.
Surrounding the church and manse are boundary walls and railings, gates, and gatepiers. The boundary features a harled dwarf wall with a coping and decorative cast-iron railings and gate for the church. The wallhead is raised to the east and west, with square gatepiers and a timber gate leading to the manse. Matching piers are located at the corners to the east and west, and the east and west walls step downhill to the north.
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