St Leonard's Church, High Street, Forres

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/03/1983 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Burgh Forres NGR NJ 03798 59050 Coordinates 303798, 859050 — Ross and Macbeth, 1901-3. Decorated Gothic. Coursed tooled rubble with ashlar dressings. Large gable to High Street with triple entrances divided by cluster colonnettes with stiff leaf capitals. Triple geometric traceried windows above and gable parapet with heavy quatrefoil decoration. To left, bowed wing housing gallery stairs lit by cusped lancet windows; to right, 3-stage tower with battered base, lancets, corbelled angle turrets to upper stage with crenellated parapet, surmounted by facetted spire with lucarnes at base. 5-bay body of church with paired, cusped windows to ground and gallery; steeply pitched slate roof. INTERIOR: U-plan gallery with cusped Gothic panelling to front, supported by 6 cluster cast-iron columns with bulbous florid capitals. Gothic panelled pulpit and organ case. Hammer beam type roof, boarded and panelled. Chequered glazing to windows. Church hall to rear. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Formerly Forres High United Free Church. Contains 2 large ornate chairs with crocketted backs. Former Item 27 (1983 Revised List)

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.