Priest's House, Ss Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church, Byron Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. Church, presbytery.
Priest's House, Ss Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church, Byron Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- small-loft-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1965
- Type
- Church, presbytery
- OS grid reference
- NO 396 316
- Coordinates
- 56.47326, -2.98173
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Priest's House at Ss Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church in Dundee was designed by Sir Reginald Fairlie and completed in 1929. This simple Romanesque church is constructed of red brick, featuring darker brick voussoirs and minimal stone dressings on the south front. The church has an arched doorway set within a cavetto chamfer, with a brick tympanum and single lights on either side, a lozenge, a triplet of round-arched windows, and an empty niche above. A cross finial adorns the building, which includes buttresses and short flanking towers topped with perforated pattern parapets. There is a side porch on the east with a catslide roof. The church has seven bays on the sides with round-arched lights and pilaster buttresses, a lower chancel with three-light side chapels, and a five-light clerestory. The north gable is blank, and the windows feature cathedral glazing. The roof is pantiled, and there is a short round-arched link to the Presbytery, which has a three-light window and a door, topped with a slate roof.
Inside the church, there is a flat timber-panelled ceiling supported by octagonal columns, creating a wide nave and narrow aisles. The Stations of the Cross, possibly by Meredith Williams, are displayed within. A wide arch leads to a simple brick sanctuary, which has arcaded sides and a curved timber ceiling.
The Presbytery is a two-storey, six-bay house with an arched doorway in the third bay and 12-pane sash and case windows.
Local climate
Priest's House, Ss Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church, Byron Street, 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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