St Andrew's Church, Olrig Street, Thurso

J Russell Mackenzie, Aberdeen, architect, 1870. Gothic,

large church, orientated SW-NE. Coursed Rubble, tooled ashlar

dressings. Gabled front to street masked by large projecting

canted porch rising full height with large geometric

traceried windows in centre and side bays and flanked by

buttresses. Recessed centre gabled porch with nook shafts

and trumeau. To left of entrance polygonal gallery staircase

bay with pyramidal slate roof; to right square tower rises

4 stages, the upper stage with louvred vents and

truncated angle pinnacles, supporting lucarned and

facetted ashlar faced spire with clock faces under stepped

gables at base.

Crowstepped gabled flanks with tripartites in ground floor

and geometric traceried windows above. Canted NE apse with

single storey extensions masking base. Crowsteps; slate roof.

Interior; galleried interior with ornate bombe cast-iron

gallery front, supported by cast-iron columns with fluted

square capitals. Memorial in porch to Sir George Sinclair of

Ulbster, died 1868.