Inverallan Parish Church, Mossie Road, Grantown-On-Spey is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Church.
Inverallan Parish Church, Mossie Road, Grantown-On-Spey
- WRENN ID
- unlit-remnant-rye
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Inverallan Parish Church, Mossie Road, Grantown-On-Spey, PH26 3JH
- OS grid reference
- NJ 031 280
- Coordinates
- 57.33266, -3.60998
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Inverallan Parish Church, located on Mossie Road in Grantown-On-Spey, was designed by Alexander Smith from Cullen and built between 1884 and 1886. This cruciform Gothic church is oriented east to west and constructed from sneck coursed tooled ashlar with tooled and polished ashlar dressings.
The eastern gable features a central entrance with a pointed-headed doorpiece flanked by paired round-headed entrances, which include a trumeau and an inscribed tympanum. Long Y-traceried windows are positioned on either side, and above them is a large hood-moulded window with ornate tracery that incorporates intersecting designs. Three additional windows with similar ornate tracery, featuring the letter S for Seafield, are located elsewhere on the building. The church has lattice-pane glazing and another entrance in the eastern gable with flanking windows. The south transept has a doorway in a slightly advanced gabled porch. The northern gable apex supports a bellcote with arcaded corbelling, nookshafts, cusped detailing, and apex ball finials, along with various buttresses and a slate roof.
Inside, the church has a lofty interior with a braced timber roof featuring drop pendants that spring from bolection moulded corbels. The eastern Seafield gallery has a front carved with the Lord's Prayer, although no seating remains. An ornate octagonal pulpit is located at the northwest angle of the crossing, featuring re-used German carving dated 1629, rising from a slender octagonal plinth. This pulpit showcases stylised foliage, fruit, banding, scroll and beaded borders, with some deep carvings and further leaf and acorn designs. The front panel depicts the Nativity under a raised head with a double eagle crest and motto, and the narrow pedimented backboard incorporates a cupboard door, flanking caryatids, a cross, and the date 1639.
Similar carving, also dated 1639, is re-used in a narrow mural clock at the southwest angle of the crossing. Below the gallery, there is a large series of finely carved 17th-century panels, which have been incorporated into the wall and feature a later base. These panels depict a series of coats of arms of eight Highland or northeast families, along with lower panels of stylised flowers and geometric patterns, carved texts on rails, and further stylised carving on the muntins.
Local climate
Inverallan Parish Church, Mossie Road, Grantown-On-Spey sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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