Description

Henry Coe and F P Goodwin (London 1853-4). Small mid-pointed
Gothic church, rubble-built with Caen stone dressings.
Nave, N aisle and chancel. Slate roofs. W gable pointed
arched door with 4-light geometrical traceried window over.
Apex 2-arch gabled bellcote with cross finial. Octagonal
angle turret with facetted stone roof at SW. Shouldered
arched door to right. Buttressed N aisle with 2-light
geometrical traceried window.
N elevation: 4-bay buttressed aisle with pointed 2-light
windows over basement tripartites. Lean-to roof. Lower
2-bay chancel. S elevation unbuttressed, and with larger
nave windows.
E gable 3-light chancel window, 2 2-light side chapel
windows, blocked and with mullions missing. Simple basement
door.
INTERIOR: N aisle arcade on octagonal piers. Nave corbels
carry timber scissor-brace roof. Corbelled chancel arch;
flanked by depressed arches, formerly to side chapel and
organ, now blocked. Marble and tile reredos by William
Butterfield. Encaustic tiled chancel floor, wrought-iron
alter rail. Traces of stencilling beneath whitewash.
Undercroft (school and vestry). Stone piers replaced by
cast-iron columns 1878.

Statement of Interest

No longer in ecclesiastical use.

The second episcopal church in Dundee, placed by Bishop

Forbes as a mission amongst the slums and textile mills.

By 1908 it and its dependent missions constituted the

largest congregation in the Scottish Episcopal Church. In

1952 the congregation moved to Dudhope Crescent Road,

taking with it the war memorial windows and pulpit.

The Butterfield reredos is of particular note.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808491

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings