St James's Church & Hall, 5 Fort Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 29/10/1991 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 46025 30714 Coordinates 346025, 730714 — Charles Edward and Thomas Saunders Robertson, 1889, fishermen's reading room probably also Edward and Robertson, 1896; hall, D W Baxter, 1907. Rectangular-plan with E aisle and porches, Romanesque style church. Vestries and former fihermen's reading room adjoin at N and hall at NW. Snecked rubble masonry with polished buff long and short dressings, slate roof. Windows single and paired round-headed; coped skews; cast-iron rainwater goods, some decorative hoppers and straps. E ELEVATION: church at left; 2 aisle gables with recessed paired lights in moulded round arches on nook shafts with scalloped capitals; porches left and right similarly detailed, cross finials. Vestry at right with round-headed door and windows, and gable stack. Former reading room far right, recesssed paired lights and 2-leaf door with plain fanlight, both in round arches with triangular indent motif; chamfered blind oculus at gable head with date '1896', fleur-de-lys finial. S ELEVATION: 2 large windows detailed similarly to E elevation; boarded oculus at gable head, shouldered gable to corbelled bellcote (bell missing). N ELEVATION: similar to S but no bellcote and mainly concealed. W elevation plain. INTERIOR: 2-arched aisle at E, round marble column with painted waterleaf capital, organ at N (Scobell and Co, Edinburgh, removed from St Rule's, Monifieth circa 1970). Timber pews with cast-iron and brass umbrella stands; simple dado at S, E and W walls. Fine timber lectern and pulpit (memorial to Rev James Burgess, 1905-25) of Romanesque design at N left, also communion table and reredos, centre; panelled dado, war memorial choirstalls and marble tablet. Col

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.