Wishart Memorial Church, 61 King Street, Dundee

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/02/1965 Local Authority Dundee Planning Authority Dundee Burgh Dundee NGR NO 40649 30749 Coordinates 340649, 730749 — Thomas Martin Cappon, with William Gillespie Lamond, draughtsman, 1899-1901. Free perpendicular church with square-section tower, snecked rubble with red ashlar dressings. Some art-nouveau details. GABLE TO STREET: large perpendicular traceried window within ogee hood moulded. Mullioned basement window. Round arched door to right with carved tympanum and ogee hood mould. Advanced square-section tower with slight batter; round-arched entrance with bas-relief portrait of Wishart in tympanum, moulded reveals and ornate attached finials; 3-light square headed window over. Single stair lights on return elevation, belfry stage with twin louvred openings under continuous hood moulds, angle gargoyles and finials, crenellated parapet. Tall sides and rear, in fall of ground; 4-storey vestry block projects at W, canted bay at rear formerly housing pulpit and organ; 3 3-light traceried windows, those to E within battered, skewed gablets. Piended and gabled slate roof with pagoda ventilator and wrought-iron finial. Sinuous art-nouveau wrought-iron railings to street. INTERIOR: gallaried on two sides. Fine Edwardian stained glass. Original leaded glass.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.