St Peter And The Holy Rood Episcopal Church, 2 Sir George's Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Church. 2 related planning applications.
St Peter And The Holy Rood Episcopal Church, 2 Sir George's Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- open-lime-ivy
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Peter And The Holy Rood Episcopal Church, 2 Sir George's Street, Thurso, KW14 7AW
- OS grid reference
- ND 117 682
- Coordinates
- 58.59325, -3.52052
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Peter and The Holy Rood Episcopal Church, built in 1885 by Alexander Ross with a later chancel completed in 1905, is a simple rectangular Gothic church oriented southwest to northeast. The exterior features sneck coursed rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone dressings. At the southwest, there is a projecting gabled entrance porch with a narrow circular bell tower attached. This bell tower rises in three stages and has pointed-headed lancets in the upper stages, which are fitted with Caithness slab louvres. It also has a corbelled upper band course and a bellcast fishscale slated conical roof topped with a cast-iron finial. A large Gothic window with geometric tracery is located in the southwest gable, while the flanks are lit by simple paired lancets across five bays and the chancel has two bays. Cross finials adorn the apexes of the porch and the northwest gable, and the roofs are covered in slate. There is a small later flat-roofed vestry at the north corner.
Inside, the church features a timber arch brace roof supported by wallhead corbels that display incised Celtic motifs. The engaged column capitals flanking the chancel are decorated with stiff leaf detailing. A tall wooden reredos includes Flemish panels set into a finialled frame. Additionally, there is a fielded panelled pew dated 1676, which features a Munro eagle and initials at the rear of the church.
Local climate
St Peter And The Holy Rood Episcopal Church, 2 Sir George's Street, Thurso sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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