Thurso West Church And Church Rooms, Sinclair Street, Thurso

Church; David Smith, architect and builder, 1859. Gothic;

coursed dressed rubble, tooled ashlar dressings.

Orientated SE-NW with main entrance front to Sinclair Street,

and rear access from Princes Street. Rectangular church with

advanced tower in centre SE gabled front with pointed headed

recessed porch in base of tower, clasped buttresses

terminating in (truncated) pinnacles, octagonal belfry with

lucarned spire. Cusped Y-tracery windows in 1st and 2nd

stages of spire, louvred at 2nd stage; small pointed headed

louvred vents in each face of octagonal belfry.

Cusped Y-tracery windows flank entrance; similar windows

light 5-bay side elevations. Large hoodmoulded Perpendicular

window lights NW gable, fronted by low, single storey bowed

vestry with Tudor arched entrance at left (blind similar

entrance right); Easdale slate roof. Interior; simple

galleried interior; canted U-shape gallery supported by plain

cast-iron clustered columns, with panelled frontage; coffered

ceiling; grained wooden pews; Gothic detailing to pulpit

backboard.

Church Room: contemporary.

or near contemporary gabled Gothic church room at N angle,

with large Perpendicular gabled porch entrance from

Robertsons Lane. Polygonal end stack; slate roof. Low

coped retaining wall with cast-iron spearhead railings and

matching pair gates to Sinclair Street. Square tooled rubble

pair gate piers with shallow pyramidal caps; similar end

piers; dry stone wall to Princes Street.