Description

Charles and Leslie Ower 1889-1890 as St Mary's Manse. Idiosyncratic mixed neo-medieval design, 2-storey and asttic rubble courses with red sandstone dressings.

Balanced 3-bay south front, 2 gables with tripartites, single light depressed arch attic windows with square hoodmoulds. Single windowed centre bay later dormer left-hand gable projects slightly. Stop-chamfered openings.

Bold entrance front steep pavilion roofed projecting entrance vestibule and open porch. Unequal round and semi lozenge arches on circular columns with richly sculptured capitals and granite shafts, single centre window between mullion features and big gabled dormer with shafts above; terracotta finialed ridges. Big buttressed inglenook stack grouped with it to right. Projecting window band of 4 depressed arched stained glass lights. Large panel over to right with arms of Dundee and latin inscription: "Bless Lord, the House of Your Minister".

Slate roof with terracotta ridge and cross finials and spiral chimney cans, some missing. Windows sash and case, 2-pane glazing pattern.

Low boundary walls red ashlar gatepiers with pointed caps. Modern gates; railings missing.

Statement of Interest

Former Manse of St Mary's Church, the Parishchurch ofdundee. Shield to E galbe; Erected 1889.

Colin Campbell Minister.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806982

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets