Rosemarkie Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/03/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Burgh Fortrose NGR NH 73726 57631 Coordinates 273726, 857631 — John Falconer and John Wilson, masons, James McLean, carpenter, 1818-22. Thinly detailed Gothic rectangular church with tower at west gable. Tower, south and west elevations of rough ashlar; north and east elevations of sneck-harled rubble; polished ashlar dressings; slated roof. Body of church 4 bays with 4 tall windows at south and 2 similar windows at north, the windows having timber mullions and tracery; all windows have hoodmoulds. At centre of south front, crenellated vestry (now porch). Moulded eaves cornice; square-plan skewputts with ornate stiff leaf finials. Tower of 3 stages delineated by string courses; Gothic openings with hoodmoulds, those at second stage with label stops carved with heads (of bonnetted women at south and capped men at west); corbelled, crenellated parapet with crocketted pinnacles at angles. Interior recast and re-orientated towards east, John Robertson, 1894. Gothick horse-shore gallery borne on clustered columns; original pulpit with sounding board in form of crown; furnishings of pine. Two memorial tablets by James Dalziel, Edinburgh, to members of the Fowler family of Raddery and Grange, early 19th century.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.