St Mary Magdalene's Episcopal Church, 11 Blinshall Street, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/02/1965 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 39645 30252 Coordinates 339645, 730252 — Henry Coe and F P Goodwin (London 1853-4). Small mid-pointed Gothic church, rubble-built with Caen stone dressings. Nave, N aisle and chancel. Slate roofs. W gable pointed arched door with 4-light geometrical traceried window over. Apex 2-arch gabled bellcote with cross finial. Octagonal angle turret with facetted stone roof at SW. Shouldered arched door to right. Buttressed N aisle with 2-light geometrical traceried window. N elevation: 4-bay buttressed aisle with pointed 2-light windows over basement tripartites. Lean-to roof. Lower 2-bay chancel. S elevation unbuttressed, and with larger nave windows. E gable 3-light chancel window, 2 2-light side chapel windows, blocked and with mullions missing. Simple basement door. INTERIOR: N aisle arcade on octagonal piers. Nave corbels carry timber scissor-brace roof. Corbelled chancel arch; flanked by depressed arches, formerly to side chapel and organ, now blocked. Marble and tile reredos by William Butterfield. Encaustic tiled chancel floor, wrought-iron alter rail. Traces of stencilling beneath whitewash. Undercroft (school and vestry). Stone piers replaced by cast-iron columns 1878. — No longer in ecclesiastical use. The second episcopal church in Dundee, placed by Bishop Forbes as a mission amongst the slums and textile mills. By 1908 it and its dependent missions constituted the largest congregation in the Scottish Episcopal Church. In 1952 the congregation moved to Dudhope Crescent Road, taking with it the war memorial windows and pulpit. The Butterfield reredos is of particular note.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.