Wallacetown Church Of Scotland, Crescent Street, Dundee

Wallacetown Church of Scotland, built between 1839 and 1840 by George Mathewson, features a tower that was heightened by Charles and Leslie Ower in 1877. This rectangular church and tower exhibit neo-Romanesque detailing, constructed from squared, coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings.

The east elevation showcases a 110-foot, three-stage tower that slightly projects at the center. Flanking the central doorway, which is dated 1840 and located at the base of the tower, are two tall round-headed windows with arched Y-tracery that illuminate the gallery stairs. The tower includes clasping pilaster buttresses, a round-arched entrance with nook shafts, and a three-light stepped round-headed window above, with blind lancets on the return elevations. The second stage features a louvred belfry window with an arched head set into a five-arch blind arcade. The top stage has a shafted two-light window with an inset clock face and chevron decoration on the hood moulds, along with shafted angles to the pilasters and circular pinnacles that clasp the arcaded parapet.

On the south elevation, there are four tall round-arched windows with arched Y-tracery. The west gable has two similarly detailed windows flanking a three-light sanctuary window. A school has been converted to a hall at right angles to the north elevation, which includes a simple round-arched porch, two round-headed windows, an oculus, and a stack in the north gable, along with a louvred fleche. The roofs are slate, with skylights now slated over.

Inside, the church has five bays and a projecting organ chamber, featuring a U-plan gallery supported by tall clustered cast-iron columns. The upper columns hold four-centred arched roof trusses made of plastered timber, adorned with arched decoration in the spandrels. The original clerestorey level openings were formerly lit by skylights. A notable stained glass window was inserted in 1877. The gallery behind the pulpit and fronting the organ chamber has cusped paneling, along with other alterations made by Charles and Leslie Ower in 1877.