Wick Old Parish Church, High Street, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.

Wick Old Parish Church, High Street, Wick

WRENN ID
noble-buttress-ebony
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 April 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
ND 361 511
Coordinates
58.44405, -3.09543
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Wick Old Parish Church, built between 1820 and 1830 by John Henry of Edinburgh, is a Gothic-style church characterized by its simple wide rectangular shape. The exterior is constructed from coursed dressed rubble with ashlar dressings. A single-stage tower is located at the south-east corner, featuring a facetted spire that is gabled at the base. The tower has two tiers of blind panels, string courses, and a stone waisted baluster finial. Corbelled pinnacles are present at the south-east angles and at the angles of the corbelled crenellation, although these are now truncated. The church has a slate roof and a spacious interior with galleries.

Local climate

Wick Old Parish Church, High Street, Wick receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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