Roseangle Ryehill Church, 130 Perth Road, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/06/1989 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 39556 29758 Coordinates 339556, 729758 — James Hutton, 1884. Decorated gothic church, cruciform- plan in prominent position with tall spire. Rubble-built with notable ashlar details, carving by Mr Bremner of Broughty Ferry. N elevation: gabled central 4-light window with rose and heads of Luther, Knox and Chalmers (first Moderator of Free Church) in carved tympanum. 3-light window below under projecting gablets. Doors approached by steps to either side, carved tympana within gablets with cross finials, carved animals and birds. Lancets with flowing tracery above to right narrow buttressed bay with gablet and pinnacles crowning the buttresses. Lower facetted-roofed extension to right. Centre gable with pierced parapet. TOWER, to left: square at base, chamfered angles broached at belfry level, louvred belfry lancets, pinnacles and gargoyle spouts at base of spire, steep facetted spire with wrought-iron finial. SIDE ELEVATIONS: 3 flowing traceried gabletted windows between buttresses. Transept with large 4-light flowing traceried window, trefoil and angle gargoyles. S APSE: semi-octagonal with gabletted lancets and angle buttresses. Plain basement windows with cathedral glazing. Slate roof with fl_che at transept crossing. Good cast-iron railings with zoomorphic hand rails. INTERIOR: plaster rib vaulted ceiling on tall clustered columns; transept crossing on angel corbels. Organ removed from apse to rear gallery in 1969 (1895 organ case by R and J Sibbald, part altered). Modest stained glass in apse. Side war memorial windows by Stephen Adam of Glasgow. Vestibule window by A L Russell 1952 to William Lyon Mackenzie, Canadian patriot and writer, born near Springfield, Dunde

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.