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
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Castlehill Church, High Street, Forres, IV36 1NP
- OS grid reference
- NJ 035 587
- Coordinates
- 57.60862, -3.61619
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castlehill Church, located on High Street in Forres, was designed by John Rhind and built between 1870 and 1871. It features a cruciform plan in the Decorated Gothic style. The church is constructed of coursed, stugged rubble with tooled ashlar dressings and has a slated roof.
The northern gable facing High Street showcases a large decorated Gothic window, flanked by square porches that have pointed arched doors, moulded reveals, and nook shafts. The return elevation includes Y-tracery windows. The church also has a decorated parapet and angle pinnacles.
Inside, the nave consists of five bays with paired lancet windows in the aisles and geometric traceried clerestory windows that have gabled and finialled heads. The tall transepts are adorned with decorated windows, and there is a single bay chancel. The northern gable features a decorated head and is flanked by moulded octagonal buttresses that rise through the parapet to form shafted and gabletted pinnacles. The roof is also slated.
Local climate
Castlehill 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 — 5 applications
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