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Funeral Home, Huntly Street, Inverness

A Category C Listed Building in Inverness Central, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.479 / 57°28'44"N

Longitude: -4.2316 / 4°13'53"W

OS Eastings: 266291

OS Northings: 845389

OS Grid: NH662453

Mapcode National: GBR H8XY.QDV

Mapcode Global: WH3FB.Z84W

Plus Code: 9C9QFQH9+H9

Entry Name: Funeral Home, Huntly Street, Inverness

Listing Name: Huntly Street, Former Queen Street Church

Listing Date: 21 May 1971

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379821

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35277

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200379821

Location: Inverness

County: Highland

Town: Inverness

Electoral Ward: Inverness Central

Traditional County: Inverness-shire

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

J Pond Macdonald, 1893-5 free Palladian. Centre block has a
2-storey 3-bay pedimented front with upper Ionic order and
arched and keyblocked Corinthian doorpiece approached by
broad concave-splayed staircase. Flanking centre are 2-storey
pedimented stairhalls, pilastered with round windows at 1st
floor; left stairhall carried up as tower with open top
stage of square couples rising into slated spire of
bellshaped profile.

Statement of Interest

Originally Queen Street Free Church. The congregation was

originally the Queen Street United Secession Church formed in

1829. It entered the union of 1847 in which the United

Presbyterian Church was formed but, in 1873, seceded to join

the Free Church. The first church was in Queen Street. A new

church in King Street was opened in 1865 and the present

building in 1895.

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