Dingwall Free Church

Greetings and thanks to my two followers sticking with this site during a fallow period. Anyway, this is a photograph of Dingwall Free Church, which was designed by John Rhind (1836-89) and built between 1867 and 1870. It is an attractive, if austere, building. The material is undoubtedly the Old Red Sandstone of Easter-Ross. Architecturally, its octagonal dome and pilarets make it stand out in Highland architecture. Dingwall played a large part in the Easter Ross Evangelical revival of the 18th century and subsequently had a healthy Free Church congregation. Rhind was born in Banffshire in 1836 and his father was the Inverness-based architect George. In common with Alexander Ross, he designed many gothic buildings. Rhind was elected to the town council in 1880 and worked strenuously until his death in 1889.