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Latitude: 57.5837 / 57°35'1"N
Longitude: -3.8762 / 3°52'34"W
OS Eastings: 287916
OS Northings: 856405
OS Grid: NH879564
Mapcode National: GBR J8SP.558
Mapcode Global: WH4G2.FND3
Plus Code: 9C9RH4MF+FG
Entry Name: Old Parish Church, Academy Street, Nairn
Listing Name: Academy Street, Old Parish Church
Listing Date: 12 March 1981
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 383755
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38400
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Nairn, Academy Street, Old Parish Church
ID on this website: 200383755
Location: Nairn
County: Highland
Town: Nairn
Electoral Ward: Nairn and Cawdor
Traditional County: Nairnshire
Tagged with: Church building
John Starforth, 1893-7. Large double cruciform 1st pointed Gothic Church. 4 stage tower (100 feet high) with stepped angle buttresses at east containing main entrance divided by central trumeau and enriched with carved tympanum under gabled porch.
Triple light to 2nd stage; paired light to 3rd; 3 louvred belfry lights to each face, crenellated parapet. Tower flanked by 2 storey circular stairtowers with conical slate roofs. Body of church symmetrical with wide buttressed and pinnancled canted gables, 2 bays and wide gable "transept"; gabled west elevation. 1, 2, 3 and 5-light lancets, some cusped to both ground and gallery. Steeply pitched slate roof with tile cresting.
All bullfaced rubble with ashlar dressings.
Interior: near triangular plan with horse-shoe shaped gallery to three sides; original pine fittings exist; panelled front
to gallery, pews, bowed panelled doors, ornate pulpit. Pine braced rafter roof springing from stone corbels enriched with stiff leaf decoration.
Font: Andrew Davidson, Rome (sculptor). White Carrara and greenish Siena marble, 3'4" high octagonal basin supported by pillarets on octagonal base.
Stained glass: in west wall by John Hardman's studios, 1932 and 1942. South transept by Douglas Strachan, circa 1946, as memorial to W R Pirie and grandson.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Font gifted in 1899.
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