Old Kirk, Whiteness is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Church. 1 related planning application.

Old Kirk, Whiteness

WRENN ID: shadowed-merlon-ebony
Grade: C
Local Planning Authority: Shetland Islands
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 18 October 1977
Type: Church
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

1x3-bay former hall church of rectangular plan with bellcote to W (entrance) gable and gabled vestry wing projecting from E (rear) gable. Harled walls with droved ashlar margins. Projecting cills to windows.

W (ENTRANCE) GABLE: symmetrical, 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with rectangular fanlight centring gable, 16-pane timber sash and case window rising into gablehead surmounted by ashlar birdcage bellcote with corniced pyramidal stone cap.

S AND N ELEVATIONS: regularly fenestrated with tall 5-pane timber fixed-lights in each bay.

E (REAR) GABLE: single-flue gablehead stack to vestry wing (with modern lean-to addition to N) projecting at centre with window in principal gablehead above.

Purple-grey slate roofs, ashlar skew-copes with bracketted skewputts.

GRAVEYARD WALL: random rubble wall with concrete cope enclosing graveyard to S; wall terminated at church by single battered rubble pier with concrete cap

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