St Peter And The Holy Rood Episcopal Church, 2 Sir George's Street, Thurso, Thurso, Highland

Entry Name: St Peter And The Holy Rood Episcopal Church, 2 Sir George's Street, Thurso

Listing Name: Sir George's Street, Episcopal Church of St Peter and the Holy Rood

Listing Date: 28 November 1984

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388455

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42029

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200388455

Location: Thurso

County: Highland

Town: Thurso

Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness

Traditional County: Caithness

Tagged with: Church building

Description

Alexander Ross, 1885 with later chancel completed 1905.
Simple rectangular Gothic church orientated SW-NE. Sneck
coursed rubble, contrasting tooled sandstone dressings.
Projecting gabled entrance porch at SW with narrow circular
bell tower attached, rising 3 stages with pointed headed
lancets in upper stages with Caithness slab louvres;
corbelled upper band course; bellcast fishscale slated
conical roof with cast-iron finial Large Gothic window with
geometric tracery in SW gable; simple paired lancets light
5-bay flanks and 2-bay chancel. Cross finials at apeces of
porch and NW gable; slate roofs.
Small later flat roofed vestry at N corner.
Interior; timber arch brace roof supported by wallhead
corbels with incised Celtic motifs; stiff leaf detailing to
engaged column capitals flanking chancel; tall wooden
reredos with (?) Flemish panels set into finialled frame.
Fielded panelled pew, dated 1676 with Munro eagle and
initials at rear of church.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Reredos oak panels depict Ascension and Pentecost; gifted to

church by Sir Tollemache Sinclair who "bought them on the

Continent". Chancel gifted by Mrs Sinclair of Barrock in

memory of her younger son Norman Alexander Sinclair. Pew back

at rear of church initialled AMM and CM with Munro eagle

and date 1676, former family pew of Rev Andrew Munro of Coul,

Ross-shire from old St Peter's Church. Thurso, "parson

of Thurso 1655-1693". Married to Christian, daughter of John

Munro of Culcraigie, Ross-shire.

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