St Mary's Parish Church, City Churches, Nethergate, Dundee

St Mary's Parish Church is an example of a decorated Gothic ashlar church, constructed between 1843 and 1844 by William Burn. It occupies the site of a previous choir which was destroyed by fire in 1841, and represents the easternmost of Dundee's City Churches. A hall was added in 1896-7 by William Alexander. The church has a slate roof, and features stained glass windows and small leaded panes.

The south elevation presents five buttressed bays, displaying Gothic geometric and flowing traceried windows, with a basket-arch door to the left. A continuous cill course and impost-level hoodmould run along the elevation, with niches within the buttresses. The parapet is interrupted by two-light clerestory windows set within pointed ogee-arched heads. It includes a blind quatrefoil parapet with gargoyle spouts. The east gable features a large, flowing traceried mullioned and transomed window above a basket-arch door, flanked by angle buttresses with pinnacles. The crocketed gable is topped with a cross finial.

The north elevation is similar to the south, but without buttresses. Added in 1897, the single-storey, T-plan hall has flowing traceried windows in its gables, alongside a stack and a small, louvred ventilator fleche.

Inside, the nave and aisles are separated by a round-arched arcade supported by stout, clustered piers. Galleries surround the aisles, with a horse-shoe shape at the rear supported on cast-iron columns. The roof is a timber hammer-beam structure, with a flat ceiling at collar level. The church contains outstanding stained glass by a number of prominent English and Scottish makers, including Morris & Co (with figures by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris), Daniel Cottier and Co, Newcastle Stained Glass Co, Small, Ballantine, Powell & Son, A. L. Russell, and T. S. Halliday. The furnishings include an organ by Forster and Andrews of Hull, dating from 1865, and subsequently repaired in 1908, 1939, and 1969, housed within a Gothic case. Pews were replaced in 1940. A reading desk is constructed from elements of the 17th-century pulpit of the original parish church. A carved timber pulpit screen and a timber Black Watch War Memorial, incorporating woodwork by H. H. Martyn & Co, Cheltenham (1921), are also present. The hall contains a timber collar-beam roof, with a mezzanine inserted in 1964.