Wick Central Church, Dempster Street, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. Church.
Wick Central Church, Dempster Street, Wick
- WRENN ID
- muted-portal-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1983
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
- Spire added 1862. Gothic 5 bay rectangular church with tall single stage tower to south. Regular coursed rubble with contrasting ashlar long and short dressings. Tower: stepped clasping angle buttresses; entrance on south face with pointed head under ogee hoodmould; hoodmoulded blind cusped panel above. Tall louvred belfrey openings with paired cusped heads and hoodmould which continues round tower and returns to gable end of church. Battlemented parapet with angle piers and clock in raised centre of each face. Facetted spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes on alternate faces; finial. Door and Y-traceried gallery window in each flanking gable, small inner similarly traceried windows; original rib panelling to doors. Tall Y-traceried windows in side walls. Session house to east; single storey gable end to street; gabled porch: similarly detailed windows; low coped wall with fleurs-de-lis decorated cast-iron railings.
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