Jubilee Arch, Reres Park, Monifieth Road, Dundee is a Grade C listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1991. Arch and fountain.
Jubilee Arch, Reres Park, Monifieth Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- calm-zinc-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1991
- Type
- Arch and fountain
- OS grid reference
- NO 473 312
- Coordinates
- 56.47024, -2.85545
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Jubilee Arch, located in Reres Park on Monifieth Road in Dundee, was designed by Charles Edward and Thomas Saunders Robertson and completed in 1887. This structure commemorates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and features a drinking fountain, all in a Baronial style made of ashlar sandstone.
The south elevation showcases a round-headed archway with roll-moulding, adorned with a lion rampant and royal arms set in circular panels within the spandrels. It has circular-section piers designed to resemble turrets, complete with a base and string course. The parapet is corbelled and battlemented, featuring a raised central relief panel of Queen Victoria, along with cable moulding and carved decorations of thistles, roses, and shamrocks. The caps of the piers are banded conical shapes topped with crown finials.
The north elevation mirrors the south but includes a relief of Broughty Castle in the raised central panel.
The drinking fountain consists of small circular-section turret-piers with conical caps, linked by a central section that features a water stoup and a round-headed niche, although the plumbing is missing. The spandrels display thistle and rose motifs.
Surrounding the arch is a long low ashlar retaining wall, from which railings have been removed, extending to circular-section paired ashlar gatepiers. These gatepiers have a base course and conical stone caps, with the western pair topped with thistle finials.
Local climate
Jubilee Arch, Reres Park, Monifieth Road, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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