St Andrew's Church, Olrig Street, Thurso

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 28/11/1984 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Burgh Thurso NGR ND 11628 68551 Coordinates 311628, 968551 — J Russell Mackenzie, Aberdeen, architect, 1870. Gothic, large church, orientated SW-NE. Coursed Rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Gabled front to street masked by large projecting canted porch rising full height with large geometric traceried windows in centre and side bays and flanked by buttresses. Recessed centre gabled porch with nook shafts and trumeau. To left of entrance polygonal gallery staircase bay with pyramidal slate roof; to right square tower rises 4 stages, the upper stage with louvred vents and truncated angle pinnacles, supporting lucarned and facetted ashlar faced spire with clock faces under stepped gables at base. Crowstepped gabled flanks with tripartites in ground floor and geometric traceried windows above. Canted NE apse with single storey extensions masking base. Crowsteps; slate roof. Interior; galleried interior with ornate bombe cast-iron gallery front, supported by cast-iron columns with fluted square capitals. Memorial in porch to Sir George Sinclair of Ulbster, died 1868. — Former "First Free Church" replacing the first, circa 1844, Disruption Free Church in Thurso. Building no longer in ecclesiastical use. Terminates Rose Street. Foundation Stone laid by Sir George Sinclair of Ulbster

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.