Congregational Church, King Street, Nairn is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Church. 1 related planning application.

Congregational Church, King Street, Nairn

WRENN ID
upper-bastion-magpie
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
Address
Congregational Church, King Street, Nairn, IV12 4NB
OS grid reference
NH 883 567
Coordinates
57.58667, -3.8687
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Congregational Church on King Street in Nairn was built by James Matthews between 1860 and 1861. It features a Gothic design with a cruciform plan, a two-stage tower, and a broached spire located at the southeast corner. The church is constructed from rubble with broached ashlar dressings. There is a gabled porch on the north wall of the tower in the re-entrant angle. The windows are simple lancets, arranged in pairs or triples at the gable ends. The building has sawtoothed skews, stone finials, and a slate roof. Inside, the original interior is simply galleried. Attached to the northeast is a two-bay rectangular church hall, built around the same time and in a similar style, featuring coped rubble walls.

Local climate

Congregational Church, King 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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