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Latitude: 60.2836 / 60°17'0"N
Longitude: -1.3765 / 1°22'35"W
OS Eastings: 434578
OS Northings: 1155651
OS Grid: HU345556
Mapcode National: GBR Q1YK.HYP
Mapcode Global: XHD2J.GSWB
Plus Code: 9CGW7JMF+C9
Entry Name: Aith Church, Aith
Listing Name: Aith, Aith Church (Church of Scotland) and Manse, Including Boundary Walls, Railings, Gates and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391151
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44566
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391151
Location: Sandsting
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Parish: Sandsting
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Church building Manse
Circa 1900. Group comprising 1 and 2-storey 5 x 2-bay mission church and 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical manse to E. Harled walls with margins, all painted.
CHURCH: S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; entrance door with margined blind arch-head off-set to right in bay to outer left, lancets in bays to right, buttresses dividing bays, angle buttresses at corners.
W ELEVATION: symmetrical 2-storey elevation, regularly fenestrated with lancets at 1st floor.
E ELEVATION: symmetrical, 3-light lancet window at centre.
Modern grey slate roof, modern glazing throughout.
INTERIOR: vertically-boarded timber wainscoting throughout; timber stair in entrance hall to vestry above; 4-panel timber doors. Timber fittings to hall including pews, balustraded platform to E, open timber roof with stop-chamfered members.
MANSE: E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, gabled porch projecting at ground in centre bay; entrance door with flanking narrow sidelights, bracketted skewputts. Bipartite windows in flanking bays, regular fenestration at 1st floor.
S GABLE: single window at ground to left.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey flat-roofed irregularly-fenestrated wing projecting at centre.
Timber sash and case windows, plate glass to bipartites, 4-pane pattern to other windows. Modern grey slate roof, skew copes removed, harled apex stacks, coped with circular cans.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS, GATES AND GATEPIERS: harled dwarf wall with cope and decorative cast-iron railing and gate to church, wallhead raised to E and W, square gatepiers and timber gate to manse, matching piers at corners to E and W, E and W walls stepping downhill to N.
In ecclesiastical use. Prominently sited above the village, the manse, and its plain, but crisply designed church with fine railings form a striking group.
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