Wallacetown Church of Scotland, Crescent Street, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/06/1989 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 40948 31018 Coordinates 340948, 731018 — George Mathewson, 1839-40, tower heightened by Charles and Leslie Ower, 1877. Rectangular plan church and tower, with neo-Romanesque detailing. Squared, coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings. E ELEVATION: E gable with 110 foot 3-stage tower slightly projecting at centre. 2 tall round-headed windows with arched Y-tracery lighting gallery stairs flank central doorway dated 1840 at base of tower. Tower has clasping pilaster buttresses, round arched entrance with nook shaft, 3-light stepped round-headed window over, blind lancets on return elevations; 2nd stage with louvred belfry window arched head set into 5-arch blind arcade; top stage shafted 2-light window with inset clock face, chevron decoration to hood moulds; shafted angles to pilaster, circular pinnacles clasping arcaded parapet. S ELEVATION: 4 tall round-arched windows with arched Y-tracery. W gable 2 similarly detailed windows flank 3-light sanctuary window. School converted to hall at right angles to N elevation with simple round-arched porch, 2 round-headed windows, oculus and stack in N gable, louvred fleche. Slate roofs, skylights now slated over. INTERIOR: 5 bays and projecting organ chamber, U-plan gallery on tall clustered cast-iron columns. Upper columns support 4-centred arched roof trusses of plastered timber with arched decoration in the spandrels. Original clerestorey level openings formerly lit from skylights. Good stained glass window inserted 1877. Cusped panelled gallery behind pulpit and fronting organ chamber with other alterations by Charles and Leslie Ower, 1877. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Tower a major landmark to mariners. Some

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.