Bridge Street Parish Church, Bridge Street, Wick

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/09/1983 Last Date Amended 10/01/2019 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Burgh Wick NGR ND 36269 50947 Coordinates 336269, 950947 — Bridge Street Church is a rectangular plan former Free Church (now in use as a shop) in the Late Gothic style designed by William Johnston Gray of Berwick and built between 1862 and 1864. The front elevation is built in ashlar stone with moulded stonework to the openings. The rear elevation is built in squared and tooled rubble with ashlar long and short window margins. The openings are predominantly pointed-arched with hoodmoulding. Many of the windows have Y-tracery and leaded glass. There is some stained glass. The church forms part of a terrace of buildings at the southwestern end of Bridge Street in Wick, on the northern side of the Bridge of Wick. The southeast (front) elevation is three bays wide. The central section has a buttressed gabled front with a large, five-light stone mullioned and transomed, perpendicular window with lattice glazing and stylised tracery. Above this window is a cusped roundel with eight-pointed tracery. It has a crenellated parapet and a carved finial on the apex. The bay to the right is a three-stage tower with angled buttresses and topped by an octagonal spire with carved bands and topped by a cross finial. The tower has a carved and moulded parapet. It has a single opening in the second and third stages of the tower. The bay to the left of the centre has a crenellated parapet. These flanking bays both have pointed and arched entrances with hoodmoulding. The door in the right bay has two-leaf timber doors. There are plain cast iron railings in front of the church sectioning off the basement level which is accessed via stone steps. The building has cast iron rainwat

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.