Jubilee Arch, Reres Park, Monifieth Road, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 29/10/1991 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 47395 31230 Coordinates 347395, 731230 — Charles Edward and Thomas Saunders Robertson, dated 1887. Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee arch and drinking fountain, Baronial style, ashlar sandstone. S ELEVATION: round-headed archway with roll-moulding. Lion rampant and royal arms in circular panels set in spandrels. Circular-section piers in turret-form with base and string course; corbelled, battlemented parapet with raised central relief panel of Queen Victoria; cable moulding, carved thistle, rose and shamrock decoration, banded conical caps with crown finials. N ELEVATION: similar to S elevation but with relief of Broughty Castle in raised central panel. DRINKING FOUNTAIN: small circular-section turret-piers with conical caps, central linking section with water stoup and round-headed niche (plumbing missing), thistle and rose motif in spandrels. WALL AND GATEPIERS: long low ashlar retaining wall (railings removed) at left and right extending to circular-section paired ashlar gatepiers with base course and conical stone caps (thistle finials to W pair). — Metal plaque at crown of arch inscribed 'This gateway and fountain were erected in commemoration of Her Majesty's Jubilee by James Guthrie Orchar Esq, Chief Magistrate of Broughty Ferry and were presented by him to the community on 19th September 1887'.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.