St Andrew's Parish Church, Main Street, Golspie

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 18/03/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Golspie NGR NC 83775 00225 Coordinates 283775, 900225 — 1736-7 on site of earlier chapel of St Andrews; cruciform church; harled, ashlar margins. Main body of church runs east west with contemporary Sutherland north aisle, and later south aisle dated 1754. Entrance in SE re-entrant angle, masked by small square porch; small ground and gallery windows in south elevation; south gable has paired long and centre small windows; long windows light gallery in east and west gables. Entrance to north aisle in east elevation served by forestair; 2 ground and 3 small 1st floor windows in west elevation. Apex stack with moulded cornice and string course. Multi-pane glazing; ball-finialled birdcage bellcote at west gable apex; flat skews; steeply pitched slate roof; stone ridge. Interior; Sutherland laird's loft, with rear retiring room, fills entire north aisle; panelled interior and front; enriched entablature dated 1739 supported on Corinthian columns, panelled ducal pew, and coved ceiling, work by Kenneth Sutherland, joiner at Dunrobin. Imposing panelled pulpit also by Sutherland dated 1738 at angle of south and west aisles; (moved to this position 1752); Ionic pilastered backboard with keyblocked blind inner arch; hexagonal sounding board with ornate moulded cornice. Galleries in east and west aisles, with panelled fronts probably stepped in present form c 1849. Simple white plaster walls with some mural tablets; plain grey painted panelled pews; closely resembling the originals designed by George Hay 1954; stone flagged floors. Bell inscribed as first founded 1696 and re-founded 1728 by Robert Maxwell of Edinburgh. Coped coursed rubble wall encloses burial ground containing memorial to

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.