St Clement's Church of Scotland Parish Church, Church Street, Dingwall

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 25/03/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Burgh Dingwall NGR NH 54934 58961 Coordinates 254934, 858961 — George Burn, Haddington, 1799-1803. Rectangular with octagonal tower and spire; pinned coursed rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. North elevation: 2-storey, 3-bay with projecting, pedimented wide centre bay with pointed-headed entrance and similarly detailed side lights, linked by continuous hoodmould. 2 pointed-headed windows above flank round-arched opening with 2 pointed-headed lights and quatrefoil in spandrel, similarly glazed windows in outer bays to ground and gallery, former with pointed heads, later with round. Intersecting Gothic tracery in heads. Octagonal belfry on square base above pediment with round-arched keystoned panels, alternately blind and louvred, linked by cill band and string course at springing level. Octagon crowned by tall, broached, slender octagonal ashlar spire with blind oval oculi and terminating with weather vane. South elevation: 4 long pointed-headed windows with late 19th century tracery and glazing linked by continuous hoodmould; square projecting harled Minister's porch in centre with moulded string course and round-headed windows. Side elevations: 3 gallery and 2 ground floor windows, some blind, all with square heads and later 19th century tracery and glazing. Piended slate roof. Interior: 5-sided panelled gallery; large, later 19th century rectangular pulpit with finialled and pendanted sounding board. Gate piers and burial ground walls; W C Joass, 1875-76. Square ashlar gate piers with corniced copes and stepped caps with ball finials; linking wrought-iron overthrow and lamp bracket; pair simple cast-iron gates with spear head detailing. Rubble walls with dressed cope. Various 17th, 1

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.