St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Manse Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Church. 2 related planning applications.

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Manse Street, Tain

WRENN ID
twelfth-loggia-myrtle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1982
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NH 777 822
Coordinates
57.81297, -4.05997
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, built in 1887 by Ross and Macbeth, is a simple 4 bay rectangular church designed in the first pointed Gothic style and oriented east/west. The exterior features stugged sneck coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and a base course. The north and south elevations each have two paired lancet windows and a triple lancet window in the chancel. The east gable displays three long narrow lancets, while the west gable has a Y traceried hoodmoulded window, with a porch on the left and a vestry on the right, all beneath a continuous steeply pitched slate roof. Atop the roof is a small timber louvred ridge bellcote with a facetted and bellcast spire, complete with apex cross finials.

Inside, the church has a simple design featuring an arched braced roof supported by heavy corbels. The seating consists of plain pine benches with poppyheads. The stained glass windows were created by Ballantyne and Gardiner in 1884, A L Ward in 1910, and W Wilson in 1955 and 1961. The church is enclosed by a coped rubble wall.

Local climate

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Manse Street, Tain receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% 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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