St Andrew's Church, Wellgate, Dundee

Samuel Bell with plans by James Craig made in 1769.

Church dated 1772, completed 1774. Rectangular plan

church with Palladian details and classical steeple.

Rubble-built, perhaps originally harled, with ashlar

dressings.

W TOWER: 5 stages, set back at each stage. 1st and 2nd

stages square section, 2 tiers of round headed openings,

dentil cornice at eaves level of church. 2nd stage

Diocletian window, swag and oval plaque ("Restored 1939").

3rd stage with set-back angles, clock face to each

elevation, urns at angles. 4th stage octagonal with

arched louvred belfry openings between attached angle

columns. Octagonal spire with 3 tiers of oculi and dragon

weather vane.

S ELEVATION OF KIRK: symmetrical. Central foundation

plaque dated 1772 over a later monument. 2 central

Venetian windows with Ionic pilasters, beneath swags, 2

bays to either side with arched doorways and 2 tiers of

arched windows with keystones and imposts. Dentil cornice.

N ELEVATION: 2-storey 5-bay with similar arched windows,

centre bay altered to receive passage from halls.

E GABLE: piend-roofed porch, some arched openings

blocked. Semi-circular window with circular and Y-tracery.

(perhaps originally Diocletian?). Flanking arched windows.

Blind oculus, skewputt and gable apex and angle urn

finials. Slate roof.

Windows altered for stained glass, formerly sash and case.

INTERIOR: semi-octagonal gallery on 6 Doric columns with

later emblems of the Trades. Panelled pulpit with Ionic

pedimented backboard against centre of S wall. Plain

walls and flat ceiling. Stained glass in Venetian windows

presented by the Three and Nine Trades, by Gordon and

Watt 1892, others by Mayer and Co and, post World War

II, by William Wilson, Gordon Webster and Douglas Hogg.

Organ. banners of the Nine Trades and their chairs.

Graveyard, partly remodelled as a garden of remembrance in

1953, contains 18th and 19th century monuments.

GATEPIERS: 1810, altered 1828, 4 square section rusticated

ashlar gatepiers with urn finials. Wrought and cast-iron

railings on low boundary wall.