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Reay Free Church And Walled Memorial, Achimenach

A Category B Listed Building in Reay, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.5534 / 58°33'12"N

Longitude: -3.6782 / 3°40'41"W

OS Eastings: 302440

OS Northings: 964039

OS Grid: ND024640

Mapcode National: GBR K683.ZT0

Mapcode Global: WH5BN.G8PP

Plus Code: 9CCRH83C+9P

Entry Name: Reay Free Church And Walled Memorial, Achimenach

Listing Name: Reay Free Church, Enclosing Walls to Frontage and Memorial Sited Therein, Achimenach, by Shebster

Listing Date: 28 November 1984

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 348478

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14983

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Achimenach, Reay Free Church And Walled Memorial

ID on this website: 200348478

Location: Reay

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness

Parish: Reay

Traditional County: Caithness

Tagged with: Memorial

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Description

1844. 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.

Statement of Interest

Building in ecclesiastical use as such.

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