Former Gaelic Church, 5, 7, 9 Albert Square, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/03/1995 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 40258 30424 Coordinates 340258, 730424 — David Mackenzie, 1868. 3-storey and attic, 6-bay former church converted to commercial use. Pinkish sandstone ashlar, snecked rubble to side and rear, slate roof. Band course to ground floor, cill course to 1st and 2nd floors, bracketted cornice and parapet with dies; outer bays, channelled angles to ground, rusticated quoins to upper floors. Segmental-arch windows with stilted architraves, large timber cross-windows to ground floor with pilastered jambs, 8-pane sash and case to 1st floor with aprons and consoled cornices, 6-pane to 2nd floor with consoled cornices of different design. FRONT ELEVATION: outer bays slightly advanced with consoled and corniced doorpieces (door blocked for banking machine at right), 4 windows to centre bays; 6 windows to upper floors. LEFT RETURN ELEVATION TO CHAPEL STREET: door to centre with keystoned round-headed doorcase and fanlight, pilastered and pedimented doorpiece, 9-pane top-hopper window to left and right flanked by small windows; round-headed window to 1st floor set in large recessed panel, 9-pane window to left and right; tripartite round-headed window to 2nd floor with aprons and border glazing, 9-pane window to left and right; 2 keystoned segmental windows to attic. REAR ELEVATION: 2 doors and windows to ground floor (further door and window blocked), 6 segmental windows to upper floors, 8-pane to 1st floor, 6-pane to 2nd. INTERIOR: not seen. — No longer in ecclesiastical use; the congregation transferred to St Paul's, Nethergate. A pipe organ was installed in 1906 and there were considerable alterations in 1923-4. The ground floor was a hall, and the 1st and 2nd floors the galleried

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.