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Rosebank Church, Constitution Street, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4673 / 56°28'2"N

Longitude: -2.977 / 2°58'37"W

OS Eastings: 339903

OS Northings: 730998

OS Grid: NO399309

Mapcode National: GBR Z95.CS

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.7PNZ

Plus Code: 9C8VF28F+W6

Entry Name: Rosebank Church, Constitution Street, Dundee

Listing Name: Constitution Street, Rosebank Church with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 12 March 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361326

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25157

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, Constitution Street, Rosebank Church

ID on this website: 200361326

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Coldside

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

T S Robertson 1871. Simple towered rectangular-plan early gothic church. Rubble-built with ashlar dressings. Elevation to Street: tall central gable with 3 stepped lancets within relieving arch and linking hoodmould. Quatrefoil over. Finial missing. Small gabled porches to sides with lancets, kneelers and fleur de lis finials.

Square-section NW tower behind W porch, 3 stage with paired lancets at 1st, cusped lights at 2nd and twin depressed arch hoodmoulded louvred belfry openings at 3rd. Castellated parapet. Pyramidal spire with banded fish-scale slates.

Paired lancets to harled side elevations.

Slate roofs with lean-to aisles and tiled ridge. Unusual 2-light gabled dormers. Gable-end stack. Cathedral pane glazing, some modern glass to sides.

A mission station which became a parish church in its own right in 1875, with 600 sittings.

INTERIOR: Gothic arcaded nave and galleried aisles. Fine collar-braced roof. Floor raised to gallery level to create hall.

Low railed boundary walls to front with square chamfered pyramidal-capped gatepiers. Tall rubble-built walls to sides and rear.

Statement of Interest

An ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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