Auldearn Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/01/1971 Last Date Amended 05/10/2017 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Auldearn NGR NH 91941 55561 Coordinates 291941, 855561 — Parish Church dated 1757 replacing medieval church, part of which remains to east. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following is excluded from the listing: scheduled monument SM5418 (Auldearn, Old parish church). Alterations by John Robertson of Inverness, 1898. Harled with ashlar margins and dressings. Symmetrical 8-bay south elevation with round-headed keystoned entrances in outer bays; similarly detailed windows, large in bays 3 and 6, small in remaining bays; impost blocks in windows and doors. Datestone in centre; 1650 mural monument. 4 large (1898) windows in north elevation with same detailing as in south elevation; all windows with simple circle tracery of 1898. Round-headed gallery window in east and west gables; bellcote for 2 bells at west gable apex; slate roof. Interior; re-cast and re-furbished in 1898 in Gothic style. Panelled bowed pulpit and panelled reredos at southwest enclosed by low screen; serpentine pannelled gallery front at east; cusped tracery to ceiling braces. Rubble walled burial ground. Pair of late 19th century tooled ashlar square gatepiers with Gothic detailing to west and pair of decorative cast iron carriage gates. Various 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century tombstones. Circular ashlar sundial on squat circular rubble plinth standing near southwest entrance of church. — Place of worship in use as such. 1898 alterations and renovation cost about 800, which was raised by a bazaar. In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland)

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.