St Marks Church, 158 Perth Road, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 04/02/1965 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 39365 29763 Coordinates 339365, 729763 — Frederick T Pilkington (Pilkington and Bell) 1868-9, extended 1879 by Ireland and MacLaren. Muscular well-detailed and massed gothic church with steeple and basement hall. Two-tone ashlar with coloured bands and details. TOWER and spire at NE corner: shoulder arched door in pointed porch to E, advanced gablet to N with 2-light window and hexafoil rose. Square tower with clasping buttresses chamfered at 3 stages. Paired louvred lancets at belfry stage, linked at base of 2nd stage and at impost level by dog-tooth bands. Octagonal spire with decorated bands and finials. Impressively wide N ELEVATION: elaborate centre piece with paired pointed-arched doorways under taller arches depressed 1 arched with hexafoil and carving in tympana, carved foliated band course all within wide arched porch. Large pointed arches recess over, with twin 2-light windows, quatrefoils and hexafoil in elaborately carved tympana. Cross finial. Similar but simpler windows to gablets flanking door. Stepped blind arcading over. 2-light window to right bay, tall gabletted lancet over, breaks eaves of steep pavilion roof. Wrought-iron finial. W ELEVATION: left to right: steep pyramidal roof over twin lancets, 3 advanced asymmetrical gabletted bays; 2-light with quatrefoil at left; centre 4-light with large trefoiled tympanum, 5-light bow at ground floor; right (added 1879) smaller 4-light gable; slightly advanced at ground floor. E elevation similar. Finials missing. REAR ELEVATION Ireland and MacLaren, 1879: pyramidal-roofed turrets with wrought-iron finials and cusped lancets in re-entrant angles between side gables and chancel, chamfered infill at ground floo

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.