Old Kirk, Whiteness

The Old Kirk in Whiteness is a former hall church built in 1837. It has a rectangular plan and features a bellcote on the west gable, which serves as the entrance, along with a gabled vestry wing that projects from the east gable. The church has harled walls with droved ashlar margins and projecting cills beneath the windows.

The west entrance gable is symmetrical and includes a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with a rectangular fanlight above it. There is a 16-pane timber sash and case window that rises into the gablehead, which is topped by an ashlar birdcage bellcote with a corniced pyramidal stone cap.

The south and north elevations are regularly fenestrated, each featuring tall five-pane timber fixed-lights in every bay. The east gable has a single-flue gablehead stack for the vestry wing, which has a modern lean-to addition to the north, and a window is located in the principal gablehead above.

The church is topped with purple-grey slate roofs and has ashlar skew-copes with bracketed skewputts. Surrounding the church is a graveyard enclosed by a random rubble wall with a concrete cope to the south. This wall is terminated at the church by a single battered rubble pier with a concrete cap.