St John's Episcopal Church, Moray Street, Wick

St John's Episcopal Church, located on Moray Street in Wick, was designed by Alexander Ross and built between 1868 and 1870. This small, plain Gothic church features a chancel and is constructed from squared and snecked stone with contrasting ashlar dressings, a base course, and chamfered arrises. The building has battered buttresses at the quoins and hoodmoulds above the door and principal windows.

The nave consists of four bays and includes a gabled stone porch at the outer right bay of the north elevation. The pointed arch doorway has two-leaf doors, and there are three small pointed-arched lights in the centre and left bays. The west gable end features a pointed arch, three-light window with geometric tracery, and an apex bellcote that is gabled, coped, and topped with a stone cross finial.

The chancel is lower and slightly recessed, with a quatrefoil on the right side of the north elevation. It has fixed windows with hopper panes, and three of the windows contain stained glass (details provided in the interior description). The roof is covered with graded grey slates and includes a gabled ventilator near the ridge and a ridge rooflight, along with stone cross finials on the gableheads and coped skews.

Inside, the church has whitewashed walls and an open timber roof featuring cusping on the stone-bracketed timber bracing. There is a central aisle and a chancel arch with a carved stone impost course and a stencilled verse above. The polygonal timber pulpit showcases carved motifs, and there is an organ case in the chancel. A stone front with a decorative capital supports a column that holds an octagonal basin with a carved cusped panel. The stained glass includes a west window by James Ballantine and Son from 1875 depicting the Nativity, an east window from around 1875 showing the Passion, Crucifixion, and Ascension, and a south window by C Taylor titled Light of the World. There are also some frosted engravings from 1970 and 1994, initialed 'DG'.

The boundary walls and railings consist of low ashlar coped rubble walls with decorative iron railings and a pedestrian gate. The higher walls are topped with gablet coping and feature pyramidally capped piers.