St Peter's Parish Church And Church Rooms, Princes Street, Thurso

William Burn, 1832. Gothic; wide rectangular church

orientated SE-NW, with entrance in SE in base of 3-stage

tower. All coursed, dressed rubble, tooled rubble dressings.

Pointed headed, hood-moulded porch in centre of tower, with

cusped Y-tracery windows in 3 faces of 2nd stage, and

louvred windows with intersecting tracery to belfry in all

4 faces of upper stage; clock in 3 faces below belfry

windows; polygonal clasping buttresses terminating in

pinnacles. Entrance flanked by single bay stair projection,

lit by Y-tracery window in front and side elevations. 5-bay

flanks with windows as frontage alternating with pinnacled

buttresses. Large perpendicular traceried window in centre

of broad NW gable with small flanking windows; lattice pane

glazing; NW apex stack; slate roof. Interior; shallow ribbed

and bossed vaulted ceiling; gallery with reeded panelled

frontage supported by cast-iron Roman Doric columns. Gothic

panelled pulpit; large organ at rear; pews probably from

1870-80.

Church room; later single storey, 5-bay church room fills site immediately NW of church; curved frontage with centre gable

and bipartites in bays 2, 3, and 4. Entrance in SW gable;

slate roof.

Enclosure railings; plain cast-iron spear head railings

mounted on low coped rubble retaining wall. Matching

paired gates to front flanked by octagonal capped tooled

ashlar gate piers; single pedestrian gates at sides.