The High Church And Church Hall, High Street, Nairn

A Maitland and Sons, Tain 1880/82. Early French Gothic.

Designed to give appearance of nave and aisles; tall 3-stage

tower and spire.

West front: buttressed, gabled entrance, pair of recessed

doors with nook shafts and trumeau, cusped heads under

pointed arch; 2 geometric traceried windows above, central

rose window in gable. Tower with stepped angle buttresses

terminating as octagonal pinnacles; lancet windows,

decorative clock stage, tall louvred lancets to belfry,

facetted spire with 4 lucarnes. 6 bay buttressed nave with

gallery stair projection at S.W., and gabled eastern bay.

All stugged and coursed rubble with polished ashlar

dressings; decorative corbel course; slate roof. Interior:

original pine fittings; raised pulpit to east against

panelled organ case, with flanking balusters. Gallery 3 sides

of interior wit Gothic panelling, supported by brackets,

carried on cast-iron columns with stiff leaf capitals.

Fretted and billet moulded cornice; thin king post roof.

Parish Hall: rectangular, 4 bay, linked to church by broad

passage. Triple lancets to north and south gables. Small

outshot porch to east. Stugged and coursed rubble with ashlar

dressings as Church.