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
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ross and Macbeth, 1901-3. Decorated Gothic. Coursed tooled
rubble with ashlar dressings. Large gable to High Street with
triple entrances divided by cluster colonnettes with stiff
leaf capitals. Triple geometric traceried windows above and
gable parapet with heavy quatrefoil decoration. To left,
bowed wing housing gallery stairs lit by cusped lancet
windows; to right, 3-stage tower with battered base, lancets,
corbelled angle turrets to upper stage with crenellated
parapet, surmounted by facetted spire with lucarnes at base.
5-bay body of church with paired, cusped windows to ground
and gallery; steeply pitched slate roof.
INTERIOR: U-plan gallery with cusped Gothic panelling to
front, supported by 6 cluster cast-iron columns with bulbous
florid capitals. Gothic panelled pulpit and organ case.
Hammer beam type roof, boarded and panelled. Chequered
glazing to windows.
Church hall to rear.
Detailed Attributes
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