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Latitude: 60.2303 / 60°13'49"N
Longitude: -1.5615 / 1°33'41"W
OS Eastings: 424386
OS Northings: 1149634
OS Grid: HU243496
Mapcode National: GBR Q1HP.P7K
Mapcode Global: XHD2V.14X4
Plus Code: 9CGW6CJQ+49
Entry Name: Methodist Church And Churchyard, Walls
Listing Name: Walls, Walls Methodist Church, Including Churchyard Walls, Railings, Gates, and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 30 March 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392168
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45309
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392168
Location: Walls and Sandness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland West
Parish: Walls And Sandness
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Church building Churchyard
Dated 1875. 3 x 5-bay hall church of rectangular plan. Harl-pointed rubble walls with stugged and droved sandstone dressings. Base course and chamfered arrises to windows.
Symmetrical, 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with iron latch in pointed-arched opening centring SW (entrance) gable; pointed-arched windows in flanking bays; stepped 3 light lancet window with hoodmould inscribed WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH centred at 1st floor, rising into gablehead with gabled bell-cote containing bell on rectangular plinth at apex. 5-bay SE elevation with small pointed-arched window to right of pointed-arched vertically-boarded timber door in bay to outer right; pointed-arched window in each bay to left. Symmetrical regularly-fenestrated 2-storey 2-bay NE gable with harled 2-flue gablehead stack.
Leaded glazing with coloured glass to principal windows. 8-pane timber sash and case windows to NE gable. Purple-grey slate roof with ashlar skew-copes and bracketted skewputts.
INTERIOR: timber fittings including 4-panel doors to hall in vestibule, vertically-boarded wainscoting to hall with panelled and balustraded rectangular enclosure to N end containing balustraded canted pulpit with vertically-boarded sounding board. Open timber-trussed roof.
CHURCHYARD WALLS, RAILINGS, GATES AND GATEPIERS: random rubble walls forming rectangular enclosure around church; lower wall to SW side with sandstone cope surmounted by wrought-iron railing; SE wall terminated to S by square stugged sandstone gatepiers with pyramidal caps; matching gatepiers to N. Cement-rendered and lined wall linking principal elevations of church and manse.
In ecclesiastical use. This church and manse form a striking group at the roadside on the approach to Walls.
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