South United Free Church, Hill Street, Monifieth, Dundee

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.