Logie and St John's (Cross) Parish Church, Blackness Avenue, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/02/1965 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 38658 29925 Coordinates 338658, 729925 — Frank Thomson (H and F Thomson) 1911-14. Romanesque church and halls, snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings and pilaster buttresses. Cross plan with transepts and lower 1-bay sanctuary at W. Unfinished SE tower. Romanesque arched doorways to E gable and S face of tower. Paired windows between buttresses in aisles, single windows at clerestory, stepped triplets at gables, shafted at E gable. Celtic cross finials at corbelled-out E and W gables. L-plan N wing and old hall with 2-light round-arched windows and Romanesque door in E gable, modern door in W gable. Green slate roofs. INTERIOR: concrete faced with ashlar dressings. Tall wide nave with timber-clad barrel-vaulted roof, separated from narrow aisles by arcade of stout piers with cushion capitals, clerestory above. Taller piers to transepts; organ in S transept: furnishings from Logie Parish Church in N transept. Chevron moulding details in chancel. E gallery over barrel-vaulted vestibule. Wooden furnishings and organ have interlaced celtic theme. Red tiled floors. Aisle windows stained glass, post WWII, some by A L Russell. Old hall 5-bay barrel-vault, altered 1974 by Robbie and Wellwood when second, larger hall was added, brick with monopitch roofs. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Known as Logie and St John?s (Cross) Church following amalgamation with the congregation of Logie Parish Church, now demolished, situated on South Street.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.