Lochee West Church, 191 High Street, Dundee

Lochee West Church, designed by James MacLaren, was built between 1870 and 1871 and is a Gothic church located prominently at 191 High Street in Dundee. The church features coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and has a wide south gable topped with a spire.

The south facade showcases a large five-light traceried pointed-arched window set within a central buttressed gable. Below this, there is a shouldered doorway within a gabletted pointed-arched entrance. The flanks of the gable are blind and castellated, while cusped openings create a crow-stepped effect. To the right, there is a bay with tall lancets and a buttressed apsidal end, covered by a piended slate roof and adorned with iron brattishing. The left bay is two-storey, featuring a quatrefoil in an oculus on the ground floor and a first-floor two-light traceried pointed-arched window, all topped with a castellated parapet.

At the southwest angle, the church has a tower and spire. The tower consists of three lower square-section stages with set back buttresses. The ground floor has a pointed-arched door on the west side, a hoodmoulded two-light window on the south, and lancets on both the north and south sides of the second stage. The third stage has an oculus with a square hoodmould on each face. The fourth belfry stage is octagonal, featuring angle pinnacles and louvred belfry lights, with a facetted spire above a pierced parapet, along with lucarnes and a wrought-iron finial.

The side elevations are five-bay, with the second and fourth bays containing mullioned and transomed windows with cusped heads in buttressed gabletted bays, flanked by lancets. The northeast elevation includes a gable-end stack and a canted organ recess with a large traceried rose window. There is also a single-storey gabled vestry and office with gothic details. The slate roof is lower than suggested by the south gable and features iron brattishing. The glazing pattern has been altered to metal frames at the side elevation, while stained glass is present in the north and south gables.

Inside, the church features a five-bay timber collar-beam roof supported by timber spandrels and slim cast-iron columns, which also support the gallery. A later organ is located beneath the pointed chancel arch. The stained glass in the north and south is simple, with plain patterns on the side windows, and cast-iron stair balusters are also present.