St Margaret's Church, Invermark Terrace, Barnhill, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 29/10/1991 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 47866 31601 Coordinates 347866, 731601 — Nave and transepts based on sketches by Charles Carmichael (Aberdeen, died Johannesburg 1895). Nave constructed under the direction of Duncan Carmichael (London, see NOTES), 1895; Transepts to original design under direction of T Lindsay Gray (Dundee) 1933; session room and vestries by T Lindsay Gray, 1979. Cruciform-plan, aisleless late Scots Gothic style church. Pink rock-faced and snecked masonry with buff long and short dressings, green slate roof; apse and vestries brick and harled with polished dressings. Windows mainly 3-light with intersecting or geometric tracery, hoodmoulds and mask label stops. N ELEVATION: 5-bay. Porch 2nd bay from right with diagonal Buttresses capped with short crocketted pinnacles; moulded Gothic arch on nook shafts (glass doors 1984), sculpted figure of St Margaret of Scotland in canopied niche in crowstepped gable; lancet windows E and W elevations; round-headed arch to nave with daisy, thistle and rose motifs; fine rib-vaulted ceiling with lion rampant and thistle wreath boss. N transept at left; angle buttresses, large central window with narrow light to roof. S ELEVATION: similar but with no porch. W GABLE ELEVATION: angle burttresses, large window with curvilinear tracery, Celtic cross finial. E ELEVATION: apse and vestries; polygonal apse with 4 square timber-frame windows abutting E gable, belfry in apex above (bell dated 1895); single storey 3-bay flat roofed (1979? addition. INTERIOR: Lightly picked and snecked masonry, long and short polished dressings, cill course of grey ashlar; collar braced roof, braces supported on corbels sculpted with arms of European families, some descended from

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.