South United Free Church, Hill Street, Monifieth, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 15/12/1989 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Burgh Monifieth NGR NO 49429 32405 Coordinates 349429, 732405 — James MacLaren, 1872; tower and porch Mr Strachan 1884; transepts Charles Soutar 1903-4. T-plan church with narthex and round tower at S; Gothic, stugged ashlar with tooled dressings, slate roof. S GABLED ELEVATION: narthex with centre gable over recessed double doors, sculpted tympanum, hoodmould with foliate label stop; flanking flat roof bays with Tudor-arch windows, leaded diamond glazing, diagonal buttresses and parapet. Triple window in main gable with colonnette mullions and continuous hoodmould. Corbelled bellcote and cross finial. 3-stage round tower adjoining to E: door with roll-moulded, shouldered head, trefoil headed windows with hoodmoulds and label stops to S, E and W at slightly stepped back 2nd stage; 3rd stage further stepped back, with 8 square headed and louvred apertures to belfry, corbelled to wallhead cornice supporting conical roof with part fishscale slating; weather vane finial. Skew gable with skewputts and kneelers, angle buttresses to SW. E AND W ELEVATIONS: chamfered segmental-arched windows, 3 buttressed bays; transepts to N, 3 stepped lancets; gabled porch to S of W transept. INTERIOR: collar-braced roof; pointed stone arches with octagonal piers and foliate capitals to transepts; gallery to S supported by cast-iron columns with bell capitals; 2 segmental arch patterned and coloured windows to N with similar quatrefoil above; Baird memorial window to E and Crawford to W. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such; former free church; stone bellcote added 1880 following collapse of timber predecessor. The late 19th century manse and garden adjoin the church to the N, entering from Queen Street.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.