Congregational Church And Church Hall, 87 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 29/10/1991 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 45973 31001 Coordinates 345973, 731001 — James MacLaren, 1863-4; Hall, John Young and Andrew Meldrum 1881. Rectangular-plan, aisleless Gothic style church. Rubble masonry, polished long and short dressings, blue slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles (damaged). 3 paired lancets at E and W elevations, paired top-traceried lancet and oculus at N elevation; skew gables, 4 ridge dormers, coped stack at N elevation. S ENTRANCE ELEVATION: 3-bayed: lower masonry painted; advanced central moulded Gothic door with buttresses and trefoil traceried tympanum; flanking screen and larger buttresses, with later extensions to skew gable; large stepped 3-light window with top geometric tracery, continuous hoodmould and label steps; relieving arch, date stone '1864' and angel corbel at apex. Flanking bays with cusped lancets, wallhead angle buttresses (skey parapet missing ; later diagonal buttresses. INTERIOR: Narthex with manager's room at left, gallery stairs at right, some modern panelling. Main church: gallery at S with blind trefoil arcading; organ with grained blind arcaded case and painted pipes (Rushworth and Dreaper, Liverpool) and pulpit at centre N; grained pews with cast-iron umbrella stands, timber lined walls and ceiling with strpawork cornice, apparently original wrought-iron chandeliers (converted to electricity); hammer-braced roof with pendants, traceried spandrels, and tie-rods. Clear diamond glazing, patterned stained glass at N windows. War memorial at E wall. EXTERIOR: wall with square gatepiers and railings to Brook Street. HALL: adjoining church and vestries at N on EW axis. Rectangular plan, single-storey, Gothic style. Snecked rubble with polished long and short dr

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.