Old High Kirk, Church Street, Inverness

Late 16th century tower; church 1769-72; internal

alterations, A & W Reid, 1877; additions and internal

alterations, W L Carruthers, 1899. Rubble. Tower, square-plan,

unbuttressed with small openings, projection for stair at

SE, stone-vaulted interior; top of tower probably

late 17th century with corbelled balustraded parapet, small

octagonal spire, apsidal-ended vestry added at SE

of tower, 1899. Church of 7 bays; SE flank has late

19th century porches at end bays and semi-octagonal apse of

1891 at centre bay; tall round-arched windows; at

north-west flank square-headed windows; small dormers added,

1899.

INTERIOR: extensively remodelled 1877 and 1899;

demi-octagonal gallery, pews of modified box type introduced,

1877; open timber roof, its principals springing from stone

corbels, 1899. Stained glass of various dates, by Ballantine

& Gardiner, Douglas Strachan and Gordon Webster.