St Leonard's Church, High Street, Forres is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. Church. 2 related planning applications.
St Leonard's Church, High Street, Forres
- WRENN ID
- vacant-mantel-honey
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NJ 037 590
- Coordinates
- 57.61113, -3.61181
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Leonard's Church, located on High Street in Forres, was built between 1901 and 1903 in the Decorated Gothic style. The exterior features coursed tooled rubble with ashlar dressings. The large gable facing High Street has triple entrances that are divided by cluster colonnettes topped with stiff leaf capitals. Above these entrances are triple geometric traceried windows, and the gable is adorned with a parapet that has heavy quatrefoil decoration.
To the left of the main entrance is a bowed wing that houses the gallery stairs, which are lit by cusped lancet windows. To the right, there is a three-stage tower with a battered base, lancet windows, and corbelled angle turrets at the upper stage, topped with a crenellated parapet and a facetted spire featuring lucarnes at its base. The church body has five bays, with paired cusped windows on both the ground floor and the gallery, and is covered by a steeply pitched slate roof.
Inside, the church has a U-plan gallery with cusped Gothic panelling at the front, supported by six cluster cast-iron columns with bulbous florid capitals. There is a Gothic panelled pulpit and organ case, and the roof is of the hammer beam type, boarded and panelled. The windows feature chequered glazing. Additionally, there is a church hall located at the rear.
Local climate
St Leonard's Church, High Street, Forres 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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