Logie And St John's (Cross) Parish Church, Blackness Avenue, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. Church, halls.

Logie And St John's (Cross) Parish Church, Blackness Avenue, Dundee

WRENN ID
dusted-pewter-onyx
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 February 1965
Type
Church, halls
OS grid reference
NO 386 299
Coordinates
56.45746, -2.99694
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Logie and St John's (Cross) Parish Church, located on Blackness Avenue in Dundee, was designed by Frank Thomson (H and F Thomson) and built between 1911 and 1914. This Romanesque church features snecked rubble construction with polished ashlar dressings and pilaster buttresses. It has a cross plan with transepts and a lower one-bay sanctuary at the west end, along with an unfinished southeast tower. The church includes Romanesque arched doorways on the east gable and the south face of the tower. There are paired windows between the buttresses in the aisles, single windows at the clerestory, and stepped triplet windows at the gables, which are shafted at the east gable. Celtic cross finials adorn the corbelled-out east and west gables.

To the north, there is an L-plan wing and an older hall featuring two-light round-arched windows and a Romanesque door on the east gable, with a modern door on the west gable. The roofs are covered with green slate.

Inside, the church has concrete faced with ashlar dressings. The tall, wide nave features a timber-clad barrel-vaulted roof, separated from the narrow aisles by an arcade of stout piers with cushion capitals, with a clerestory above. The transept piers are taller, and the organ is located in the south transept, while furnishings from Logie Parish Church are in the north transept. The chancel includes chevron moulding details, and there is an east gallery over the barrel-vaulted vestibule.

The wooden furnishings and organ display an interlaced Celtic theme, and the floors are covered with red tiles. The aisle windows feature stained glass, created post-World War II, with some by A L Russell. The old hall has a five-bay barrel-vault and was altered in 1974 by Robbie and Wellwood when a second, larger hall was added, constructed in brick with monopitch roofs.

Local climate

Logie And St John's (Cross) Parish Church, Blackness Avenue, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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