St Andrew's Church, Wellgate, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 12/07/1963 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 40453 30694 Coordinates 340453, 730694 — Samuel Bell with plans by James Craig made in 1769. Church dated 1772, completed 1774. Rectangular plan church with Palladian details and classical steeple. Rubble-built, perhaps originally harled, with ashlar dressings. W TOWER: 5 stages, set back at each stage. 1st and 2nd stages square section, 2 tiers of round headed openings, dentil cornice at eaves level of church. 2nd stage Diocletian window, swag and oval plaque ("Restored 1939"). 3rd stage with set-back angles, clock face to each elevation, urns at angles. 4th stage octagonal with arched louvred belfry openings between attached angle columns. Octagonal spire with 3 tiers of oculi and dragon weather vane. S ELEVATION OF KIRK: symmetrical. Central foundation plaque dated 1772 over a later monument. 2 central Venetian windows with Ionic pilasters, beneath swags, 2 bays to either side with arched doorways and 2 tiers of arched windows with keystones and imposts. Dentil cornice. N ELEVATION: 2-storey 5-bay with similar arched windows, centre bay altered to receive passage from halls. E GABLE: piend-roofed porch, some arched openings blocked. Semi-circular window with circular and Y-tracery. (perhaps originally Diocletian?). Flanking arched windows. Blind oculus, skewputt and gable apex and angle urn finials. Slate roof. Windows altered for stained glass, formerly sash and case. INTERIOR: semi-octagonal gallery on 6 Doric columns with later emblems of the Trades. Panelled pulpit with Ionic pedimented backboard against centre of S wall. Plain walls and flat ceiling. Stained glass in Venetian windows presented by the Three and Nine Trades, by Gordon and Watt 1892, others by Maye

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.