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Latitude: 59.5174 / 59°31'2"N
Longitude: -1.6421 / 1°38'31"W
OS Eastings: 420353
OS Northings: 1070211
OS Grid: HZ203702
Mapcode National: GBR Q39L.2B5
Mapcode Global: XHD69.017N
Plus Code: 9CFWG985+W5
Entry Name: Methodist Church, Fair Isle
Listing Name: Fair Isle, Fair Isle Methodist Chapel, Including Boundary Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391119
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44540
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Dunrossness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland South
Parish: Dunrossness
Traditional County: Shetland
1886. 2 x 2 bay symmetrical hall church with entrance porch projecting at E gable. Harl pointed rubble walls with stugged and droved sandstone dressings and details. Gabled stone porch with pointed arched door containing modern 2 leaf glazed timber entrance doors and 3 pane fanlight in arch head; narrow louvered opening centred in principal gable behind; gabled bellcote (bell in situ) on rectangular plinth at apex. Regularly fenestrated side and rear elevations with pointed- arched windows in each bay.
9 pane fixed lights to side elevations, pair of pointed arched stained glass windows of 1936 in W gable depicting religious scenes. Purple grey slate roof with skew copes removed.
INTERIOR: timber fittings in hall including vertically boarded wainscoting, pews, lining to ceiling, platform pulpit along W wall with ball finialled newels to balustrade.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble wall with semicircular concrete cope enclosing rectangular kirkyard; square harl-pointed gatepiers with pyramidal caps to E.
With nearby Fair Isle Old Hall, this building forms a group on the ridge that is a prominent feature of the landscape in southern Fair Isle.
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