Castlehill 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. 5 related planning applications.

Castlehill Church, High Street, Forres

WRENN ID: fading-attic-swallow
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Moray
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 30 March 1983
Type: Church
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

John Rhind, 1870-71. Decorated Gothic; cruciform plan.

Coursed, stugged rubble, tooled ashlar dressings, slated

roof. N gable to High street with large decorated and Gothic

window flanked by square porches with pointed arched doors,

moulded reveals and nook shafts; Y-tracery windows on return

elevation. Decorated parapet and angle pinnacles.

5-bay nave with paired lancets in aisles and geometric

traceried clerestory windows with gabled and finialled heads.

Tall transepts with decorated windows, single bay chancel.

N gable with decorated head and flanking moulded octagonal

buttresses rising through the parapet to form shafted and

gabletted pinnacles. Slate roof.

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