Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

SANDWICK CHURCH (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND), INCLUDING RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATEPIERSLB78

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
18/10/1977
Supplementary Information Updated
26/03/1997
Local Authority
Shetland Islands
Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Parish
Dunrossness
NGR
HU 43282 23791
Coordinates
443282, 1123791

Description

Circa 1807, remodelled in 1897. 6 x 1-bay hall church of rectangular plan with gabled single storey entrance porch and porch/vestry projecting at centres of E and W gables respectively. Harled walls, cement and droved and polished sandstone ashlar margins and details.

E GABLE: modern timber doors with plate glass fanlights to N and S elevations of entrance porch; 9-pane fixed-lights centring E and at left in N elevation; celtic cross at gable apex. Single window centred in principal gable behind; cement-rendered and lined belfry at apex, gabled with segmental-arched opening containing bell.

N ELEVATION: round-arched windows in centre and flanking bays; blank in bays to outer right and left.

W GABLE: door to left and window at right in N elevation of porch/ vestry; modern addition in re-entrant angle to S; 2-light timber mullioned window centred in principal gable behind; celtic cross at apex.

S ELEVATION: round-arched windows in centre 4 bays; keystoned in centre 2 bays, lower windows to outer left and right.

INTERIOR: timber fittings including vertically-boarded wainscoting, lined ceiling with exposed beams bearing on stone corbels. Raked gallery with panelled front at E end. Ball-finialled newels to balustrade fronting pulpit to W; panelled screen with decorative cresting behind.

15-pane timber fixed-lights to principal round-arched windows, 12-pane timber sash and case windows and 9-pane fixed-lights to other openings. Purple slate roof with cement-rendered skew copes.

RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATES: rubble dwarf wall surmounted by concrete cope and decorative cast-iron railing to S, E, and N. Cement-rendered and lined square gatepiers with corniced pyramidal caps to N and S of porch; 2-leaf decorative cast-iron gates.

Statement of Special Interest

In ecclesiastical use. Sandwick was remodelled in 1897, when the two rectangular doors were converted to windows, the porches and bellcote were added, and the pulpit moved from the S to the W wall.

References

Bibliography

Mike Finnie SHETLAND (1990) p47. John Gifford HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (1992) p505.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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