Congregational Church And Church Hall, 87 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

The Congregational Church and Church Hall, located at 87 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was built in 1863-4 by James MacLaren, with the addition of a hall in 1881 designed by John Young and Andrew Meldrum. It is a rectangular-plan, aisleless church constructed in a Gothic style. The church is built of rubble masonry with polished long and short dressings, covered by a blue slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, some of which are damaged. The elevations feature three paired lancet windows on the east and west sides, a paired top-traceried lancet and oculus at the north elevation, skew gables, four ridge dormers, and a coped stack at the north.

The south elevation has three bays, with a lower painted masonry section. A prominent advanced central moulded Gothic door is flanked by buttresses and a trefoil traceried tympanum, with later extensions to the skew gable. Above the door is a large stepped three-light window with geometric tracery, a continuous hoodmould, label steps, and a relieving arch. A date stone reading '1864' and an angel corbel are at the apex. Flanking bays contain cusped lancet windows, wallhead angle buttresses, and later diagonal buttresses, with a missing skew parapet.

Inside the church, a narthex includes a manager's room on the left and gallery stairs on the right, with some modern panelling. A gallery fronts the south side, featuring blind trefoil arcading. The organ, by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool, has a grained blind arcaded case and painted pipes. The original instrument was placed in the gallery, later replaced, and now resides in a different location. A centrally placed pulpit faces north, alongside grained pews with cast-iron umbrella stands, timber-lined walls and ceiling, a strawwork cornice, and, apparently original, wrought-iron chandeliers converted to electricity. The hammer-braced roof includes pendants, traceried spandrels, and tie-rods. Clear diamond glazing is used, with patterned stained glass in the north windows. A war memorial is located on the east wall.

The church is enclosed by a wall with square gate piers and railings fronting Brook Street.

The adjoining hall, oriented east-west, is a single-storey, rectangular building constructed in a Gothic style with snecked rubble masonry, polished long and short dressings, and a slate roof. It has skew gables topped with a Celtic cross finial at the east (the west being missing). The north elevation has three single cinquefoil-headed windows, while the east and west elevations feature four paired and stepped similar windows with quatrefoil detailing at gallery level. The hall's interior retains original features, including a timber dado and foliate cornice, along with star-patterned stained glass.

The building continues to serve as an ecclesiastical building. It was the first church in Broughty Ferry to incorporate a pipe organ, originally installed in 1864. Tradesmen involved in the construction included William Gibson (mason), Paton and Fairweather (wrights), D and W Crabb (slaters), John Adam (pasterer), and James Urquhart (plumber).