St Mary's Episcopal Church, 164 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 February 1965. Church. 2 related planning applications.

St Mary's Episcopal Church, 164 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

WRENN ID
vast-vestry-aspen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 February 1965
Type
Church
Address
St Mary's Episcopal Church, 164 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 1AJ
OS grid reference
NO 460 310
Coordinates
56.4683, -2.87695
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mary's Episcopal Church, located at 164 Queen Street in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1858, with additions including the south aisle in 1870, the north organ transept in 1887 by John Murray Robertson, and extensions to the nave and chancel in 1911 by Sir Robert Lorimer. This church features a rectangular plan in an early pointed Gothic style, comprising a nave, chancel, south aisle, and chancel chapel, along with an organ chamber and porch at the north and basement offices. The exterior is constructed of snecked rubble masonry with polished dressings and a blue slate roof. Key architectural elements include a base course, predominantly paired trefoil-headed lancet windows with hoodmoulds and label stops, skew gables, a bellcote at the west gable, and an off-centre ridge stack.

The northeast elevation showcases a five-bayed nave, with a porch located in the second bay from the right, featuring angle buttresses, small lancets on the east and west elevations, and a moulded Gothic arch supported by engaged columns. The arch leading to the nave is adorned with a mask corbel and a cinquefoil above, topped with a cross finial. The slightly lower two-bayed chancel has an advanced organ transept on the right with small spaced lights and a cinquefoil at the gallery level.

On the southeast elevation, the advanced five-bayed south aisle is complemented by angle buttresses and a central dormer in the nave roof. The east elevation features large, central stepped lights that were raised in 1917, topped with a Celtic cross finial. The west elevation includes central paired lights with a multifoil at the gallery level, a shouldered bellcote with triforium-type openings, and a Celtic cross finial.

Inside, the church has white plaster walls and four moulded Gothic arches on octagonal piers supporting a scissor-braced roof with a tie beam at the aisle. Notable interior features include choir stalls from 1911, a pulpit from 1915, a reredos from 1917, and a war memorial screen from 1921, all designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. The church is adorned with stained glass windows throughout, including the east chancel with marble colonnettes from 1880, two central nave windows on the north side by C H Burkhardt from 1867 and 1874, and a south aisle window from 1872. The south aisle window on the right is by J B Capronnier from 1883, while the All Saints' Chapel east window was created by William Wilson in 1961. There is also a memorial window dedicated to Clementina Stirling Graham and Frederick Graham Lacon by Ward and Hughes from London.

The property is enclosed by a coped rubble boundary wall and features two gatepiers at the north.

Local climate

St Mary's Episcopal Church, 164 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, 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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