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Publication Account
Date 1983
Event ID 1018517
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018517
It has been suggested that the original parish church of Wick stood at the eastern end of the town at Mount Hooly, but at some date (as yet undetermined) was transferred to a site at the west end of High Street (Beaton, 1909, 54). The name Mount Hooly does seem to indicate a church or chapel and in 1881 foundations of a building were laid bare but to all appearances it was that of a dwelling house. At the same time, however, an object said to have been a baptismal font was unearthed (Beaton, 1909, 54). There is some indication that the church at the western end of the High Street was rebuilt in 1799, but the present structure dates from 1830 (Beaton, 1909, 301; Groome, 1894, v, 490). There is an interesting fragment of the old church, designated Sinclair's Aisle, which was said to have been built by George, Fourth Earl of Caithness who died in 1583. The remains, situated in the churchyard alongside the present parish church, are marked with unseemly modern crenellations
{RCAM, 1911, 135).
Information from ‘Historic Wick: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1983).
