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Latitude: 58.5923 / 58°35'32"N
Longitude: -3.5242 / 3°31'26"W
OS Eastings: 311501
OS Northings: 968152
OS Grid: ND115681
Mapcode National: GBR K6N0.QCK
Mapcode Global: WH5BJ.V90D
Plus Code: 9CCRHFRG+W8
Entry Name: Thurso West Church And Church Rooms, Sinclair Street, Thurso
Listing Name: Sinclair Street Thurso West Church (Church of Scotland) Church Room and Gate Piers
Listing Date: 28 November 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388453
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42027
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Thurso, Sinclair Street, Thurso West Church And Church Rooms
ID on this website: 200388453
Location: Thurso
County: Highland
Town: Thurso
Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Church building
Church; David Smith, architect and builder, 1859. Gothic;
coursed dressed rubble, tooled ashlar dressings.
Orientated SE-NW with main entrance front to Sinclair Street,
and rear access from Princes Street. Rectangular church with
advanced tower in centre SE gabled front with pointed headed
recessed porch in base of tower, clasped buttresses
terminating in (truncated) pinnacles, octagonal belfry with
lucarned spire. Cusped Y-tracery windows in 1st and 2nd
stages of spire, louvred at 2nd stage; small pointed headed
louvred vents in each face of octagonal belfry.
Cusped Y-tracery windows flank entrance; similar windows
light 5-bay side elevations. Large hoodmoulded Perpendicular
window lights NW gable, fronted by low, single storey bowed
vestry with Tudor arched entrance at left (blind similar
entrance right); Easdale slate roof. Interior; simple
galleried interior; canted U-shape gallery supported by plain
cast-iron clustered columns, with panelled frontage; coffered
ceiling; grained wooden pews; Gothic detailing to pulpit
backboard.
Church Room: contemporary.
or near contemporary gabled Gothic church room at N angle,
with large Perpendicular gabled porch entrance from
Robertsons Lane. Polygonal end stack; slate roof. Low
coped retaining wall with cast-iron spearhead railings and
matching pair gates to Sinclair Street. Square tooled rubble
pair gate piers with shallow pyramidal caps; similar end
piers; dry stone wall to Princes Street.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Fronts Princes St. to NW and Robertsons Lane to NE. Formerly Free Church
incorporating former Secession congregation. Spire
measures 110 ft. Church built at cost of approx $2,000
and seats 900.
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