Queen Street Church, Camphill Road, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 29/10/1991 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 46218 31036 Coordinates 346218, 731036 — James MacLaren and George Shaw Aitken, 1876. Gothic style church with semi-hexagonal apse at E, stepped gables N and S, tower with spire at SW. Rubble masonry with polished dressings and buff long and short quoins; grrey slate roof. Cill and band courses; windows rose pattern, single and stepped lancets, some with simple geometric tracery; buttresses, skew gables, decorative ridge tiles. S ELEVATION: 3-stage tower with spire at left; moulded Goithic-arch entrance with narrow light above, angle buttresses; oculus and elongated buttress caps at stage 2; moulded Gothic arched louvred belfry openings at stage 3, short set-back buttresses, diagonal water spouts and parapet with blind triangular tracery; octagonal spire with clasping pinnacles. 3 stepped gables at right. Centre with paired lights and rose window, damaged finials; left gable head with 2 paired lights at ground floor and 3-light at gallery level, right with single 2-light, both with cross finials. N ELEVATION: similar to S but without tower. E ELEVATION: stepped lancets at NE and SE of apse. W ELEVATION: 3 single lights at ground floor, rose window at gallery level, apex chimney. Semi-hexagonal stair tower at right abutting main tower. WALL AND RAILINGS: low coped wall at W with decorative iron railings. INTERIOR: reconstructed, but some stained glass retained. — Congregation established 1873 as United Presbyterian, and united with St Luke's Church of Scotland 1953. The building used as church halls until 1969 when it was sold; presently used as a restaurant and snooker club.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.