St Mary's Roman Catholic Church And Manse, Academy Street, Nairn is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Church, manse. 1 related planning application.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church And Manse, Academy Street, Nairn
- WRENN ID
- eastward-pedestal-juniper
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1981
- Type
- Church, manse
- Address
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Church And Manse, Academy Street, Nairn, IV12 4RJ
- OS grid reference
- NH 880 564
- Coordinates
- 57.58407, -3.87446
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church and Manse, located on Academy Street in Nairn, was originally built in 1864, with an extension added in 1901 by John Robertson. The church has a small and simple rectangular plan that includes an apse and a porch on the south-west side. Adjoining the church to the north-west is a two-storey, two-bay manse. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with stugged ashlar dressings.
The church features a triple lancet window on the gable facing Academy Street and a crowstepped porch at the south-west entrance. It also has crowstepped gables topped with an apex cross and a slate roof.
Inside, the church has a simple design with braced rafters supporting a painted timber ceiling in the apse. The walls are made of painted snecked rubble. There are pale marble steps leading to the apse, accented with green marble risers, and a green and cream marble altar. In 1952, Reginald Fairlie designed an oak reredos and altar canopy featuring gilded Gothic detailing.
The manse is simply detailed, with a door and window on the ground floor and two windows on the first floor, all topped with wall-head crowstepped gables and a slate roof.
Local climate
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church And Manse, Academy Street, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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