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Latitude: 59.1798 / 59°10'47"N
Longitude: -2.7682 / 2°46'5"W
OS Eastings: 356191
OS Northings: 1032819
OS Grid: HY561328
Mapcode National: GBR M4JG.NKY
Mapcode Global: WH7B8.GJ0J
Plus Code: 9CFV56HJ+WP
Entry Name: Eday Church, Eday
Listing Name: Eday Kirk (Church of Scotland) with Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 22 January 2008
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 337721
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6195
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200337721
Location: Eday
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: North Isles
Parish: Eday
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Church building
Dated 1858. Single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan simple gabled former UP church with depressed arch windows. Roughcast-rendered masonry. Regular fenestration of depressed-arch windows with prominent keystones to side and rear elevations. Steps to 2-leaf timber-panelled door in centre of SE gable; pointed-arch traceried window above; tall, narrow, round-arched windows to outer bays of gable.
Gothick-arched small-pane glazing in fixed timber windows. Slate roof.
INTERIOR: good interior with slightly bowed and classically detailed gallery, tongue and groove dado panelling and boarded pews.
Raised pulpit with decorative chair behind. Original gaslight fittings with replacement lights
BOUNDARY WALL: drystone rubble wall enclosing graveyard; square-plan gatepiers with stepped cope caps.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The church is situated in a very prominent position on the B9063, the main road across Eday, and has considerable presence in the landscape. It was originally built as a United Presbyterian Church, but is now used by the Church of Scotland. At the time of listing it has recently been re-roofed. There was originally a small belfry on the front (SE) gable.
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