Latitude: 57.6095 / 57°36'34"N
Longitude: -3.6156 / 3°36'56"W
OS Eastings: 303565
OS Northings: 858876
OS Grid: NJ035588
Mapcode National: GBR K8FM.4HM
Mapcode Global: WH5H4.FZHV
Plus Code: 9C9RJ95M+RP
Entry Name: St Laurence Parish Church, High Street, Forres
Listing Name: High Street, St Lawrence's Church, Gate Piers and Kirkyard Walls
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 372961
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31663
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Forres, High Street, St Laurence Parish Church
ID on this website: 200372961
Location: Forres
County: Moray
Town: Forres
Electoral Ward: Forres
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Church building
John Robertson, 1903-6. Gothic. Orientated E/W; bull faced
rubble with finely tooled dressings of lighter stone, inside
and out. Entrance in E gable in recessed porch with large
decorated Gothic window over, small bell-cast spire to left
lit by long lancets and 3-stage tower to right surmounted by
pinnacles and steeple, with second entrance at base. Angle
buttresses. 5-bay flanks with lancets at lower course and
paired or triple lances within Gothic arches at upper level.
Buttresses with plain pinnacles. Apse to W with 3 long lancet
windows.
INTERIOR: Open panelled timber roofs; gallery (N) front with
Gothic decoration, divided by pillars; continuous gallery
front to W end, with shallow ogee front.
Stained glass to all windows at both upper and lower levels
to S elevation, and single window in Baptistry, by Douglas
Strachan. E and W windows by Percy C Bacon, circa 1920. Font
by Stewart McGlashan and Co, Edinburgh (copy of font at
Dryburgh Abbey in white marble). Octagonal pulpit of Caen
stone with reddish marble columns, by Hardman, Powell and Co, Birmingham. Holy table of similar stone with green marble
embellishments by Galbraith and Winton, Glasgow.
Later 18th century pair polished ashlar channelled corniced
gatepiers surmounted by ball finials. Linked by short dwarf
wall surmounted by spearheaded railings to flanking square
rough ashlar corniced piers. Rough ashlar wall with stone
cope.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Built on site of previous St Lawrence Church(es). All S
elevation stained glass gifted by Sir Alexander and Lady
Grant of Logie Forres, 1939.
Former Item 47 (1983 Revised List)
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