St Columba's High Church, Bank Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Church.
St Columba's High Church, Bank Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- scarred-brass-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1981
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 665 453
- Coordinates
- 57.47871, -4.22754
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Columba's High Church, located on Bank Street in Inverness, was designed by Mackenzie & Matthews and built between 1850 and 1852. The church features Perpendicular architectural details, constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. It has a four-bay nave and aisles, with a gable front facing Bank Street. The gable of the nave includes a four-centred arch beneath a Tudor hoodmould, topped with a four-light window. To the right, the end of the south-east aisle has a pointed-arched door under a hoodmould, with a cusped lancet window above it. On the left stands a four-stage tower with an octagonal spire, which is supported by diagonal buttresses and features a gabled clock-tower with paired pointed arches leading to the belfry and a parapet. The spire was originally supported by flying buttresses from the tower's angles. At the north-east end of the church, a transeptal sanctuary was added by John Rhind in 1866. The interior was restored after a fire by Leslie Grahame Macdougall around 1945 and includes a south-west gallery and a stained glass rose window created by Gordon Webster.
Local climate
St Columba's High Church, Bank Street, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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