St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Huntly Street, Inverness is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1971. Church.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Huntly Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- rusted-wall-swift
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 663 452
- Coordinates
- 57.47787, -4.23008
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church on Huntly Street in Inverness was designed by William Robertson and constructed between 1836 and 1837. The church features a Perpendicular style with pronounced detailing and is built from ashlar stone. The gable front includes an arched door with a rectangular hoodmould, topped by a large traceried window that has an ogee hoodmould. The gable is flanked by octagonal angle buttresses with crocketted finials, which are connected by diagonally-set screen walls to lower octagonal buttresses with pinnacles.
The interior was modified by W L Carruthers in 1893-1894, resulting in an 8-bay aisleless nave and chancel. The roof is designed in the Westminster Palace Gothic style. The reredos and altar, also by W L Carruthers with input from Peter Paul Pugin, were created during this period using Gothic-style Caen stone. There have been some recent alterations to the interior.
Local climate
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Huntly Street, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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