Wishart Memorial Church, 114, 116 Cowgate, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989. Church.

Wishart Memorial Church, 114, 116 Cowgate, Dundee

WRENN ID
under-courtyard-mint
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 June 1989
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Dated 1841. Classical 3-storey, 5-bay symmetrical church over shops. Ashlar facade, rubble built side and rear. Ground floor pilastered and corniced, shop fronts; central pend with wrought-iron gates and cast-iron cartwheel guides. Slightly recessed central section with 3 tall round-arched window recesses; inscription and date in centre bay; end bays with paired narrow arched recesses; all windows reglazed and reduced in size. Cornice and blocking course, raised pedimentally over centre 3 bays.

ELEVATION TO ST ROQUE'S LANE: ground floor cornice removed. 2 tall arched lights, original glazing behind boarding. Base of gable end stack.

REAR ELEVATION: 3-storey rubble-built; original fenestration, 3 single central and side paired windows at 1st and 2nd, arched at 2nd, sash and case multi-paned glazing patterns. 2 wall head stacks.

Piended slate roof.

INTERIOR: ground floor largely altered. 1st and 2nd floor: large galleried church, U-plan gallery on 8 cast-iron Corinthian columns. Good plaster anthemion decoration to soffit of gallery. Well of gallery now floored over. Gallery cornice and ventilators, flat ceiling.

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