The High Church And Church Hall, High Street, Nairn

The High Church and Church Hall on High Street in Nairn were built by Maitland and Sons of Tain between 1880 and 1882 in the early French Gothic style. The church is designed to resemble a nave and aisles, featuring a tall three-stage tower topped with a spire.

The west front has a buttressed, gabled entrance with a pair of recessed doors that include nook shafts and a trumeau, all beneath cusped heads in a pointed arch. Above the entrance are two geometric traceried windows and a central rose window in the gable. The tower is adorned with stepped angle buttresses that end in octagonal pinnacles, lancet windows, a decorative clock stage, and tall louvred lancets in the belfry, culminating in a facetted spire with four lucarnes. The six-bay buttressed nave includes a gallery stair projection on the southwest side and a gabled eastern bay. The exterior is constructed of stugged and coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings, featuring a decorative corbel course and a slate roof.

Inside, the church retains original pine fittings, with a raised pulpit positioned against a panelled organ case, flanked by balusters. The gallery encircles three sides of the interior and is decorated with Gothic panelling, supported by brackets and cast-iron columns with stiff leaf capitals. The cornice is fretted and billet moulded, and the roof features a thin king post.

The Parish Hall is rectangular with four bays and is connected to the church by a broad passage. It has triple lancets in the north and south gables, along with a small outshot porch to the east. The hall is built from stugged and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, similar to the church.