Mains Parish Church, Old Glamis Road, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/02/1965 Supplementary Information Updated 06/08/2025 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 40229 33684 Coordinates 340229, 733684 — 1800-1801. Simple renaissance rectangular-plan church, rubble-built with ashlar dressings. S (pulpit) elevation: 4 tall round-arched windows. N (gallery) elevation 2-storey 3-bay, centre blind at 1st. 3-bay pedimental gables, side lights blind. Attic Diocletians. Mock stack at E apex. W elevation: small corbelled out bellcote with pilastered angles and weather vane. Porches with parapets. Later single-storey piend-roofed vestries added to N angles, each with 2 bipartites to outer elevations. That at W is earlier and has tall shouldered wallhead stack. Slate roofs. Centre ventilator missing. Small-paned glazing patterns. Interior: gallery and clock on Tuscan columns. Cornice over carried by cast-iron columns with bell capitals. Some later refurnishing, including pulpit (in 1894). Fine monument to Charlotte, Lady Ogilvy, and stained glass war memorial window. Churchyard: 19th century monuments within rubble-built boundary walls. Wrought-iron gates and modern railings between square ashlar gatepiers at NE angle. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. More than half of the church monuments have fallen.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.