Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

11 BLINSHALL STREET, FORMER ST MARY MAGDALENE'S CHURCH (EPISCOPAL)LB25400

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
04/02/1965
Local Authority
Dundee
Planning Authority
Dundee
Burgh
Dundee
NGR
NO 39645 30252
Coordinates
339645, 730252

Description

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.

Statement of Special Interest

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.

References

Bibliography

B.F. A.D.P.s.

Rev D Shepherd ST MARY MAGDALENE'S 130TH BIRTHDAY BOOK (1986).

Arch. Review, CXXIII, 270-1 (ill.)

Rev E Teviotdale THE BOOK OF THE GRAND BAZAAR (1899).

C McKean and D M Walker (1984) p. 86.

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.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

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