Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

HILL STREET, SOUTH CHURCHLB37967

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
15/12/1989
Local Authority
Angus
Planning Authority
Angus
Burgh
Monifieth
NGR
NO 49429 32405
Coordinates
349429, 732405

Description

James MacLaren, 1872; tower and porch Mr Strachan 1884; transepts Charles Soutar 1903-4.

T-plan church with narthex and round tower at S; Gothic, stugged ashlar with tooled dressings, slate roof.

S GABLED ELEVATION: narthex with centre gable over recessed double doors, sculpted tympanum, hoodmould with foliate label stop; flanking flat roof bays with Tudor-arch windows, leaded diamond glazing, diagonal buttresses and parapet. Triple window in main gable with colonnette mullions and continuous hoodmould. Corbelled bellcote and cross finial.

3-stage round tower adjoining to E: door with roll-moulded, shouldered head, trefoil headed windows with hoodmoulds and label stops to S, E and W at slightly stepped back 2nd stage; 3rd stage further stepped back, with 8 square headed and louvred apertures to belfry, corbelled to wallhead cornice supporting conical roof with part fishscale slating; weather vane finial.

Skew gable with skewputts and kneelers, angle buttresses to SW.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: chamfered segmental-arched windows, 3 buttressed bays; transepts to N, 3 stepped lancets; gabled porch to S of W transept.

INTERIOR: collar-braced roof; pointed stone arches with octagonal piers and foliate capitals to transepts; gallery to S supported by cast-iron columns with bell capitals; 2 segmental arch patterned and coloured windows to N with similar quatrefoil above; Baird memorial window to E and Crawford to W.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such; former free church; stone bellcote added 1880 following collapse of timber predecessor. The late 19th century manse and garden adjoin the church to the N, entering from Queen Street.

References

Bibliography

Drawings, Dundee Archive and Record Centre; J Malcolm PARISH OF MONIFIETH, (1910); MONIFIETH SOUTH CHURCH CENTENARY, (1972); JUBILEE OF SOUTH UNITED FREE CHURCH, (1922); ?Minutes of the Deacons; Court of Free South Church;, Church records; Monifieth Dean of Guild Court ?Minute and Roll Book?, Dundee Archive and Record Centre.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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