Free Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dingwall

The Free Church of Scotland in Dingwall was built between 1867 and 1870 by architect John Rhind. This Gothic-style building is oriented north-south and features coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The north gable has a recessed centre door with pointed, moulded jambs and nook shafts, flanked by smaller doors in the outer bays, all connected by a continuous hoodmould. Above, there is a large geometric traceried window set in a finialled gable. To the left, a buttressed square tower has a long lancet window on the north and east elevations, and a corbelled band course that leads to a slender octagonal spire, which has long louvred and gabletted lancets. The roof is a groined stone elongated dome topped with a small terminal spire and weather vane. A similar truncated tower is located at the right bay, with gables above the band course.

The building has five-bay buttressed flanks featuring pointed-headed windows with cusped tracery, all linked by a continuous hoodmould. Long gallery windows with geometric tracery rise through the eaves in gablets, and there is a large rose window in the centre of the south gable. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with slate.

Inside, the church has a galleried interior and stained glass by James Ballantine from Edinburgh. The exterior includes square chamfered ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps, a low coped rubble retaining wall, and cast-iron spearhead railings.