St Rule's Parish Church, Church Street, Monifieth, Dundee

St Rule's Parish Church is a Gothic church built between 1812 and 1813 in Monifieth, Dundee. The church was initially constructed under the supervision of David Neave, with Samuel Bell overseeing the project and Alexander Thomson, a mason from Dundee, responsible for the building. Later additions include a porch and vestry at the east (now altered), and new seating installed in 1873 by Charles Edward and Thomas Robertson.

The church is rectangular with a square tower at the west end, featuring skew gables. It is constructed from roughly shaped rubble stone with alternating courses of dressed stone at the corners. A stucco extension is present at the east end. The majority of the windows have leaded glass, with six stained-glass windows included. The roof is slate, topped with two square ventilators featuring ogival shapes and louvred panels.

The west elevation is gabled and dominated by a projecting, three-stage tower. A pointed arch contains a two-leaf door with timber fanlights shaped like trefoils and quatrefoils. Blind lancet windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds appear on the south, north, and west sides of the second stage. The third stage is stepped back, possibly a later addition. It features paired, pointed, louvred, and glazed openings with clock faces (made by George Rattray of Dundee in 1914) facing north, south, east, and west. Flanking pointed arches with paired lights, geometric timber tracery, and hoodmoulds are symmetrically arranged at ground and gallery levels.

The south elevation has four bays, each with pointed arch windows featuring Y-tracery, geometric timber tracery, and a cill course; a convex wallhead cornice runs along the top. The east elevation is a simple gable end with a two-story, flat-roofed extension. Sections of the burial aisle of the Durhams of Pitkerro (dating from approximately 1626) are incorporated into the gable. The north elevation mirrors the west, with ground-floor and gallery-level windows, and a lean-to addition at the east.

Inside, the gallery has a semi-octagonal plan and is supported by timber-clad cast-iron Doric columns. The ceiling is plain plaster. Memorials include a marble war memorial commemorating the years 1914-18, a Dempster family memorial on the south wall, a three-panel roll of honour in the vestibule, and a bell made by Jacob Ser in 1565. Stained glass windows include large memorials to Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (circa 1871) and Rev Dr James Gerard Young (1902), both made by Morris and Co. Smaller memorial windows are dedicated to James Guthrie Orchar (circa 1898) and Charles and Grace Low (circa 1897). Further war memorial windows from the years 1939-45, designed by John M Aiken, were installed in 1948.

The churchyard is enclosed by walls built from roughly shaped rubble stone with rounded coping. Square gate piers are constructed from dressed stone with chamfered caps. A variety of 18th and 19th-century tombstones are present, along with a large, columned and pedimented memorial to the Kerr family (1867) and a five-bay, columned memorial to the Erskine family on the north wall.