Editing Cromarty (section)

== Architecture and landmarks ==
[[File:The old court house (geograph 6600836).jpg|thumb|[[Cromarty Courthouse]]]]
Cromarty is architecturally important for its Georgian merchant houses, such as Forsyth House, built by [[William Forsyth (merchant)|William Forsyth]], that stand within a townscape of [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] and [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] fisherman's [[cottage]]s in the local [[vernacular]] style. It is an outstanding example of an 18th/19th century burgh, "the jewel in the crown of Scottish Vernacular Architecture".<ref>{{cite news|author=David Ross|date=1 October 1994|title=Prince views a 'jewel in the crown'|newspaper=The Herald|location=Glasgow|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/prince-views-a-jewel-in-the-crown-1.482737|access-date=21 July 2014}}</ref> The cottage with crow-stepped gables in Church Street, in which the geologist [[Hugh Miller]] was born (in 1801), is now the only remaining thatched building in Cromarty, with most houses having switched to slate roofs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/hugh-millers-birthplace|title=Hugh Miller's Birthplace cottage and museum|publisher=National Trust for Scotland|access-date=8 September 2022}}</ref>

To the east of the burgh is Cromarty House, built by George Ross in 1772 on the site of the former Cromarty Castle, which he demolished. Ross also built several other notable buildings in Cromarty: a seven-bay brewery, at the time the biggest in the Highlands, of which two bays remain (now used as a residential arts and training centre); [[Cromarty Courthouse]], now a museum;<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB23585|desc= Cromarty Court House Museum including prison, gatepiers, boundary wall and railings, Church Street, Cromarty|access-date=7 September 2022}}</ref> a hemp factory, converted into housing in the 1970s; the harbour, designed by [[John Smeaton]]; and a new chapel just outside the town to hold services in [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] for the many Gaelic-speaking workers who moved to Cromarty in the period, later used by Polish soldiers during the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cromarty Image Library – Gaelic Chapel – c1916|url=http://www.thecromartyarchive.org/picture/number55.asp|website=www.thecromartyarchive.org|access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref>

While the Gaelic chapel is now ruined, its graveyard is still active as Cromarty's cemetery, and the town's war memorial and a monument to [[Hugh Miller]] are situated next to it. Other buildings of note in Cromarty include the [[Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)|Stevenson]] Lighthouse, built in 1846, and the East Kirk, an important example of a medieval kirk in the Scottish vernacular, restored in the 2000s by the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/cromarty/eastchurch/index.html|title=Cromarty East Church|publisher=Undiscovered Scotland| access-date=8 September 2022}}</ref>