Free Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dingwall is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Church.
Free Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dingwall
- WRENN ID
- ragged-hall-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Free Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dingwall, IV15 9HF
- OS grid reference
- NH 552 586
- Coordinates
- 57.59462, -4.4239
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Free Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dingwall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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