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Latitude: 59.9199 / 59°55'11"N
Longitude: -1.302 / 1°18'7"W
OS Eastings: 439127
OS Northings: 1115192
OS Grid: HU391151
Mapcode National: GBR R24J.22Z
Mapcode Global: XHD49.GX4M
Plus Code: 9CFWWM9X+X6
Entry Name: Dunrossness Parish Church, Brew
Listing Name: Brew, Dunrossness Kirk (Church of Scotland), Including Kirkyard Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 18 October 1977
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 336877
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5439
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Brew, Dunrossness Parish Church
ID on this website: 200336877
Location: Dunrossness
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: Shetland South
Parish: Dunrossness
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Church building
Dated 1790. 6 x 2 bay symmetrical hall church of rectangular plan with porches projecting from gables to E and W. Harled walls with painted dressings and details.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tall round-arched windows with high cills and keystones in bays flanking centre; windows in flanking bays with low cills; windows in outer bays.
E GABLE: projecting gabled single storey porch centred at ground; vertically-boarded timber entrance door in N elevation, pointed-arched windows in S and E elevations; buttresses clasping corners. Windows flanking centre in principal gablehead; droved ashlar belfry at apex comprising square plinth with 3-centred arches (blind to N and S) above, surmounted by stepped stone cap with ball finial.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled wing projecting at centre with modern lean- to addition in re-entrant at right; windows in 2 bays to left.
W GABLE: projecting single story vestry centred at ground; pointed- arched windows in S and W elevations; vertically-boarded timber door with pointed-arched wing to left in N elevation; buttresses clasping corners. Windows flanking centre in principal gablehead.
Timber fixed-lights to windows; multi-pane to pulpit windows; 12-pane in flanking bays; 4-pane to pointed-arched windows. Modern grey tile roofs with timber eaves.
INTERIOR: timber fittings including panelled semi octagonal pulpit centring S wall; horizontally boarded pews with panelled fronts, stairs at E and W to U plan gallery with panelled front, supported on square fluted columns.
KIRKYARD WALL AND GATEPIERS: finely wrought drystone rubble wall, capped gatepiers to gate centring N wall and at E end of S wall.
In ecclesiastical use. This church superceded the old Kirk at Quendale which was later demolished.
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