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Reay Free Church (Former)
Date 30 November 2001
Event ID 905769
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/905769
Double pile, double aisle church with symmetrical twin gabled south front. Tooled rubble south front, tooled ashlar dressings, harl pointed rubble flanks and rear. Paired round-headed centre doors, flanked by 4 round-headed windows; bandcourse at eaves level links skewputts; blind Gothic window in each gable; octagonal bellcote corbelled from square plinth
rises from central valley, centre front, with octagonal facetted and finialled spire; octagonal apex stacks. 5-sided Minister's porch projects from centre of west elevation, with Tudor headed doorway and windows; tall corniced ridge stack. Caithness slate roofs; ball finials to rear gable apexes. Interior; plain interior now divided into two down centre.
Short memorial obelisk stands in front of church within rubble walled enclosure; front quadrants with centre entrance with double wooden gates and pair plain Caithness slab gate piers. (Historic Scotland)
