Ogilvie U. F. Church, Albert Street, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/06/1989 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 41143 31544 Coordinates 341143, 731544 — Charles Edward and Thomas S Robertson, 1874 Mission School, L-plan church added 1876. Prominent triangular site bounded by Albert, Eliza and Dura Streets. Simple rubble-built gabled Gothic with wooden tracery. PICTURESQUE COMPOSITION TO ALBERT STREET: entrance is at base of lozenge tower in re-entrant angle, lancets light stair at lower stage, tall louvred belfry windows above, 2-light on long, single light on short sides. Blind trefoiled parapet, slate broach spire with Lucarne and wrought-iron finial. Clock. 2-storey paired gabled gallery projection at left of tower, quatrefoil traceried upper windows, lancets and single-storey apsidal projecting vestry with 3 gabled windows at SE angle. ELIZA STREET GABLE: buttressed with 2-light traceried windows, simple rose window and vesica, impost-level string courses. DURA STREET ELEVATION: shallow twin gabled projection with 2 2-light traceried windows, 2-storey 3-gabled section to left. Rose window in N gable. Single-storey 4-bay hall to N with apsidal end and modern skylights, lower canted projection at gusset with mansard roof added 1978, replacing apsidal gablets. Cathedral glazing, slate roof. INTERIOR: L-plan, 2 galleries to N and E, both with modern halls brought forward into upper pews. 1 single and 1 engaged shaft with stiff leaf capitals. Collar beam/hammer beam roof. Early 20th century pulpit, organ and a little stained glass. HALL: Hammer beam roof removed and floor inserted. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Originally the Dura Street Mission School and Ogilvie Free Church.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.