Nairn Rosebank Parish Church, Academy Street, Nairn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Church. 3 related planning applications.

Nairn Rosebank Parish Church, Academy Street, Nairn

WRENN ID
hallowed-passage-owl
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1981
Type
Church
Address
Nairn Rosebank Parish Church, Academy Street, Nairn, IV12 4RJ
OS grid reference
NH 881 564
Coordinates
57.58405, -3.87225
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Nairn Rosebank Parish Church, built in 1852 by Mackenzie and Matthews, is a Romanesque church constructed from coursed rubble with broached and polished ashlar dressings. The church has a rectangular plan with five bays and features a gabled north front. This front includes a pair of doors set beneath a wide round arch, which is decorated with bands of Romanesque moulding. Above the doors, there is a triple light window framed by an intersecting double arcade, along with a small wheel window in the gable head topped by a tall apex bellcote. The outer bays are separated by simple masonry piers that support tall, round-arched, shafted windows. The five-bay long elevation also features similar windows divided by piers, a corbelled parapet, and an end stack at the south apex. The steep slate roof is finished with a gablet finial.

Local climate

Nairn Rosebank Parish Church, Academy 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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