Reay Free Church (Former), Shebster

Double pile, double aisle church with symmetrical twin gabled south front. Tooled rubble south front, tooled ashlar dressings, harl pointed rubble flanks and rear. Paired round-headed centre doors, flanked by 4 round-headed windows; bandcourse at eaves level links skewputts; blind Gothic window in each gable; octagonal bellcote corbelled from square plinth
rises from central valley, centre front, with octagonal facetted and finialled spire; octagonal apex stacks. 5-sided Minister's porch projects from centre of west elevation, with Tudor headed doorway and windows; tall corniced ridge stack. Caithness slate roofs; ball finials to rear gable apexes. Interior; plain interior now divided into two down centre.

Short memorial obelisk stands in front of church within rubble walled enclosure; front quadrants with centre entrance with double wooden gates and pair plain Caithness slab gate piers. (Historic Scotland)

November 2001: Local planners report that the building is in a dangerous condition and Building Control has been alerted. Building ownership details forwarded.

20 June 2012: External inspection finds the building is a roofless ruin. Some windows are boarded up but most have been lost. Wallheads are overgrown. Scottish Church Heritage Research note the church was last in use as such in 1985. Latterly in use as agricultural storage.

26 September 2013: External inspection finds the building a roofless shell except a side chapel. Wallheads are unconsolidated and growing weeds.

23 February 2024: Desk-based assessment suggests the building remains a roofless ruin.