South United Free Church, Hill Street, Monifieth, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1989. Church. 4 related planning applications.
South United Free Church, Hill Street, Monifieth, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- final-copper-jet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1989
- Type
- Church
- Address
- South United Free Church, Hill Street, Monifieth, Dundee, DD5 4JR
- OS grid reference
- NO 494 324
- Coordinates
- 56.48102, -2.82267
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The South United Free Church, located on Hill Street in Monifieth, Dundee, was designed by James MacLaren in 1872, with a tower and porch added by Mr. Strachan in 1884, and transepts by Charles Soutar between 1903 and 1904. This T-plan church features a narthex and a round tower at the south end. It is built in Gothic style using stugged ashlar with tooled dressings and has a slate roof.
The south gabled elevation includes a narthex with a central gable above recessed double doors, which features a sculpted tympanum and a hoodmould with a foliate label stop. There are flanking flat roof bays with Tudor-arch windows that have leaded diamond glazing, diagonal buttresses, and a parapet. The main gable has a triple window with colonnette mullions and a continuous hoodmould, along with a corbelled bellcote and a cross finial.
Adjoining to the east is a three-stage round tower. The tower has a door with a roll-moulded, shouldered head, and trefoil-headed windows with hoodmoulds and label stops on the south, east, and west sides, set back slightly on the second stage. The third stage is further stepped back and features eight square-headed, louvred apertures for the belfry, with a corbelled wallhead cornice that supports a conical roof covered in part fishscale slating, topped with a weather vane finial.
The skew gable has skewputts and kneelers, with angle buttresses on the southwest side. The east and west elevations have chamfered segmental-arched windows and three buttressed bays, with transepts to the north that feature three stepped lancets. There is a gabled porch on the south side of the west transept.
Inside, the church has a collar-braced roof and pointed stone arches supported by octagonal piers with foliate capitals in the transepts. A gallery to the south is supported by cast-iron columns with bell capitals. The north side has two segmental arch patterned and coloured windows, with a similar quatrefoil window above. Memorial windows include the Baird window to the east and the Crawford window to the west.
Local climate
South United Free Church, Hill Street, Monifieth, Dundee receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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