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Mains Parish Church, Old Glamis Road, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4914 / 56°29'28"N

Longitude: -2.9715 / 2°58'17"W

OS Eastings: 340276

OS Northings: 733677

OS Grid: NO402336

Mapcode National: GBR Z9N.HP

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.B37G

Plus Code: 9C8VF2RH+H9

Entry Name: Mains Parish Church, Old Glamis Road, Dundee

Listing Name: Old Glamis Road and Claverhouse Road, Mains Parish Church (Of Scotland) and Churchyard

Listing Date: 4 February 1965

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361664

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25440

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, Old Glamis Road, Mains Parish Church

ID on this website: 200361664

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Strathmartine

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

1800-1801. Simple renaissance rectangular-plan church, rubble-built with ashlar dressings. S (pulpit) elevation: 4 tall round-arched windows. N (gallery) elevation 2-storey 3-bay, centre blind at 1st. 3-bay pedimental gables, side lights blind. Attic Diocletians. Mock stack at E apex. W elevation: small corbelled out bellcote with pilastered angles and weather vane. Porches with parapets.

Later single-storey piend-roofed vestries added to N angles, each with 2 bipartites to outer elevations. That at W is earlier and has tall shouldered wallhead stack.

Slate roofs. Centre ventilator missing. Small-paned glazing patterns. Interior: gallery and clock on Tuscan columns. Cornice over carried by cast-iron columns with bell capitals. Some later refurnishing, including pulpit (in 1894). Fine monument to Charlotte, Lady Ogilvy, and stained glass war memorial window.

Churchyard: 19th century monuments within rubble-built boundary walls. Wrought-iron gates and modern railings between square ashlar gatepiers at NE angle.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. More than half of the church monuments have fallen.

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