St Columba's Episcopal Church, Queen Street, Nairn is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Church.
St Columba's Episcopal Church, Queen Street, Nairn
- WRENN ID
- plain-wall-sparrow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1981
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NH 883 562
- Coordinates
- 57.58262, -3.86898
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Columba's Episcopal Church, located on Queen Street in Nairn, was designed by Alexander Ross in 1857 and later enlarged by John Robertson in 1898. The church is built in the Early English Gothic style and features a five-bay nave with a lower two-bay chancel and a gabled porch at the northwest. The structure is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and has simple lancet windows on the side elevations. The west gable includes two geometric traceried windows and one rose window, while the east gable features a triple lancet. Each gable apex of the nave is topped with a stone cross. The roof is covered with slate.
Inside, the church has a simple design with a braced rafter roof made of red Memel pine, supported by simple stone corbels. There is a traceried timber choir screen and a stone reredos and altar, both decorated with blind Gothic arches, with the reredos bordered by dog-tooth ornament. A simple hexagonal font is also present. The church contains near contemporary stained glass windows.
Local climate
St Columba's Episcopal Church, Queen Street, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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