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Old High Kirk, Church Street, Inverness

A Category A Listed Building in Inverness Central, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.4801 / 57°28'48"N

Longitude: -4.2288 / 4°13'43"W

OS Eastings: 266463

OS Northings: 845514

OS Grid: NH664455

Mapcode National: GBR H8XY.RP2

Mapcode Global: WH4GH.07KZ

Plus Code: 9C9QFQJC+3F

Entry Name: Old High Kirk, Church Street, Inverness

Listing Name: Church Street, Old High Church

Listing Date: 21 May 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379709

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35179

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200379709

Location: Inverness

County: Highland

Town: Inverness

Electoral Ward: Inverness Central

Traditional County: Inverness-shire

Tagged with: Church building Architectural structure

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Description

Late 16th century tower; church 1769-72; internal
alterations, A & W Reid, 1877; additions and internal
alterations, W L Carruthers, 1899. Rubble. Tower, square-plan,
unbuttressed with small openings, projection for stair at
SE, stone-vaulted interior; top of tower probably
late 17th century with corbelled balustraded parapet, small
octagonal spire, apsidal-ended vestry added at SE
of tower, 1899. Church of 7 bays; SE flank has late
19th century porches at end bays and semi-octagonal apse of
1891 at centre bay; tall round-arched windows; at
north-west flank square-headed windows; small dormers added,
1899.
INTERIOR: extensively remodelled 1877 and 1899;
demi-octagonal gallery, pews of modified box type introduced,
1877; open timber roof, its principals springing from stone
corbels, 1899. Stained glass of various dates, by Ballantine
& Gardiner, Douglas Strachan and Gordon Webster.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The steeple was

repaired in 1649 (RECORDS OF INVERNESS, ed. William Mackay

and Herbert Cameron Bond, ii (1894) 201). The church was

rebuilt in 1769 to a plan procured from George Fraser,

Depute-Auditor of the Excise at Edinburgh. The plan was an

enlarged version of that of the Buccleuch Church, Edinburgh,

built in 1755-6 (Charles Fraser Mackintosh, ANTIQUARIAN NOTES

(1865), 291).

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