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Latitude: 58.5959 / 58°35'45"N
Longitude: -3.5221 / 3°31'19"W
OS Eastings: 311628
OS Northings: 968551
OS Grid: ND116685
Mapcode National: GBR K6N0.K8T
Mapcode Global: WH5BJ.V6ZM
Plus Code: 9CCRHFWH+94
Entry Name: St Andrew's Church, Olrig Street, Thurso
Listing Name: Olrig Street Former St Andrew's Church
Listing Date: 28 November 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388423
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42006
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Thurso, Olrig Street, St Andrew's Church
ID on this website: 200388423
Location: Thurso
County: Highland
Town: Thurso
Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Church building
J Russell Mackenzie, Aberdeen, architect, 1870. Gothic,
large church, orientated SW-NE. Coursed Rubble, tooled ashlar
dressings. Gabled front to street masked by large projecting
canted porch rising full height with large geometric
traceried windows in centre and side bays and flanked by
buttresses. Recessed centre gabled porch with nook shafts
and trumeau. To left of entrance polygonal gallery staircase
bay with pyramidal slate roof; to right square tower rises
4 stages, the upper stage with louvred vents and
truncated angle pinnacles, supporting lucarned and
facetted ashlar faced spire with clock faces under stepped
gables at base.
Crowstepped gabled flanks with tripartites in ground floor
and geometric traceried windows above. Canted NE apse with
single storey extensions masking base. Crowsteps; slate roof.
Interior; galleried interior with ornate bombe cast-iron
gallery front, supported by cast-iron columns with fluted
square capitals. Memorial in porch to Sir George Sinclair of
Ulbster, died 1868.
Former "First Free Church" replacing the first, circa
1844, Disruption Free Church in Thurso.
Building no longer in ecclesiastical use.
Terminates Rose Street.
Foundation Stone laid by Sir George Sinclair of Ulbster
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