St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Academy Street, Fortrose is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Church.

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Academy Street, Fortrose

WRENN ID
scattered-trefoil-lark
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NH 727 563
Coordinates
57.5796, -4.12935
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, located on Academy Street in Fortrose, was built between 1823 and 1828, with later additions and alterations by Ross & Macbeth in 1891 and 1904. The chancel was completed by Ross & Macbeth in 1907, and a vestry was added in 1913. The church is designed in the Perpendicular style and constructed from ashlar stone. Originally, it was a simple rectangular structure with four buttressed bays, featuring pinnacled buttresses, including diagonally set ones at the corners topped with crocketted pinnacles. The windows include timber tracery and are adorned with hoodmoulds.

The late 19th and early 20th-century modifications introduced a semi-octagonal, pinnacled apse at the east, a gabled baptistry at the west, a gabled porch at the north-west, and a vestry at the north-east. The roofs are slated.

Inside, the church features a re-casting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including a wrought-iron chancel screen, a stone screen in the baptistry, a stone pulpit with a stair-baluster made of cast-iron and brass, a stone font, and plain pews. Stained glass by Holt & Co of Warwick, dating from the early 20th century, can be found in the apse, porch, baptistry, and one south window.

Local climate

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Academy Street, Fortrose sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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