Congregational Church, Panmure Street, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/02/1965 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 40203 30539 Coordinates 340203, 730539 — David Bryce, 1855; converted to library and hall for Dundee High School by Wellwood/Leslie, 1985. Aisleless Gothic former Congregational church. Stugged rubble with pale ashlar dressings, grey slate roof. Base course, cill course, buttresses and corniced coped parapet to Euclid Crescent; 3-light geometric-traceried pointed-arch windows with chamfered reveals and hoodmoulds to side elevations, large rose windows at gallery level to N and S gables (hoodmould with mask label stops to S), narrow square-headed and cusped lancet leaded lights to stair towers. FRONT ELEVATION: symmetrical; multiple-moulded pointed-arch doorcase to centre with nookshafts and hoodmould with mask label stops, rose window above, Celtic cross-finialled ashlar-coped gable with crocketted and finialled diagonal buttresses, 3-stage octagonal stair towers to left and right re-entrants with various windows, swept prismatic roofs with louvred lucarnes and decorative finials. W (EUCLID STREET) ELEVATION: 4 windows divided by buttresses. E ELEVATION: similar to W but without buttresses and parapet. N GABLE: centre gable advanced with rose window and Celtic cross finial, small stack to left, flanking traceried windows. INTERIOR: stone newel stairs with decorative cast-iron balusters to landings; body of the church divided horizontally with original capitals and chancel arch remaining, hammerbeam roof. RAILINGS: cast-iron railings to Euclid Crescent. — Trinity Hall also incorporates the former Original Secession Church, listed at 4 Euclid Crescent.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.