Moray HER - NJ05NW0151 - CASTLEHILL CHURCH, HIGH STREET, FORRES

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Primary Reference	NJ05NW0151
Name	CASTLEHILL CHURCH, HIGH STREET, FORRES
NRHE Card No.	NJ05NW136
NRHE Numlink	172300
HES SM No.	NULL
HES LB No.	31721
Site Form	Standing Structure
Site Condition	Complete 2
Details	Church, converted for use as a church hall after its closure in 1971. The original church was built in 1812, repaired in 1852, but was rebuilt in 1870-71 to a design by John Rhind. It is of a decorated Gothic style, with a cruciform plan and constructed of coursed, stugged rubble, with tooled ashlar dressings and a slated roof. The North gable to High street has a large decorated Gothic window, flanked by square porches with pointed arched doors, moulded reveals and nook shafts. There are Y-tracery windows on return elevation of the porch, and a decorated parapet and angle pinnacles. The five-bay nave has paired lancets in the aisles and geometric traceried clerestory windows, with gabled and finialled heads. There are tall transepts with decorated windows and a single bay chancel. The North gable has a decorated head and flanking moulded octagonal buttresses, rising through the parapet to form shafted and gabletted pinnacles. Two war memorial plaques, commemorating those lost in the First and Second World Wars, were moved to St Leonard's Church (NJ05NW0210) in 1962 when Castlehill Church closed.
Last Update	23/10/2024
Updated By	cherbert

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National Grid Reference: NJ 0353 5877

Monument Type 1	Monument Type 2	Monument Type 3	Order	Probability
DRESSINGS	ASHLAR		P	100
ROOFS	SLATE		Q	100
REVEALS		MOULDED	R	100
WINDOWS		FINIALLED	S	100
PINNACLES		SHAFTED	T	100
PINNACLES		GABLETTED	U	100
CHURCHES	RUBBLE-BUILT	GOTHIC	A	100
WINDOWS		GOTHIC	B	100
WINDOWS	GEOMETRIC	TRACERIED	C	100
LANCETS	PAIRED		D	100
BUTTRESSES	OCTAGONAL	MOULDED	E	100
PINNACLES	ANGLE		I	100
NAVES		FIVE-BAY	J	100
CHANCELS		SINGLE-BAY	K	100
PINNACLES		GABLETTED	L	100
CLERESTORIES			M	100
WINDOWS		DECORATED	N	100
TRANSEPTS			O	100
MEMORIALS	WAR	SITE OF	V	100
PARAPETS		DECORATED	F	100
PORCHES	SQUARE		G	100
DOORS	ARCH	POINTED	H	100