Invergordon Free Church And Church Hall, Castle Road, Invergordon is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Church, church hall. 2 related planning applications.
Invergordon Free Church And Church Hall, Castle Road, Invergordon
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Church, church hall
- Address
- Invergordon Free Church And Church Hall, Castle Road, Invergordon, IV18 0AZ
- OS grid reference
- NH 707 687
- Coordinates
- 57.68995, -4.16963
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Invergordon Free Church and Church Hall, built between 1859 and 1861 and dated 1860, is a Gothic-style building with a symmetrical, cruciform layout. It features a very tall spire on the south gable. The exterior is constructed of stugged, sneck coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings.
The entrance is pointed-headed and recessed, located at the base of a central square tower that has diagonal buttresses. Above the entrance is a Gothic window with geometric tracery. Each face of the second stage of the tower has three louvred lancets, and the octagonal stone spire is topped with a weather vane and includes lucarnes. A turret stair is situated in the southwest angle.
The church has three-bay flanks, with the southeast and southwest bays rising into gables that feature traceried Gothic windows. The second and third bays have paired lancets with alternating buttresses. The northeast and northwest transepts are supported by diagonal buttresses and have large Gothic windows that match the detailing of the other windows.
The Church Hall, dated 1864, is located at the north gable of the church.
Local climate
Invergordon Free Church And Church Hall, Castle Road, Invergordon sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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