Old St Paul's And St David's Church, City Churches, Nethergate, Dundee is a Grade A listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1963. Church.

Old St Paul's And St David's Church, City Churches, Nethergate, Dundee

WRENN ID
lunar-alcove-hazel
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 July 1963
Type
Church
Address
Old St Paul's And St David's Church, City Churches, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DG
OS grid reference
NO 401 301
Coordinates
56.45947, -2.97252
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Old St Paul's and St David's Church, designed by William Burn in 1841-1842 and completed by David Bryce in 1847, is located on the site of the transepts of the Parish Church, which later became known as South and Cross Churches. This church is built in a decorated Gothic style using ashlar stone and is situated between St Mary's and Steeple Churches. It features stained glass windows with intersecting squares and hexagons, and has a slate roof.

The south elevation includes a gabled transept with a large Y- and curvilinear-traceried pointed-arch window, inspired by the west window of the tower. It has angle buttresses topped with pinnacles and a crocketted gable adorned with a cross finial. The east and west return elevations display large similarly traceried windows and a quatrefoil-pierced parapet. To the west, there are two buttressed bays set back from the transept, featuring large traceried windows and a blind quatrefoil parapet. Below two of the windows are basket-arch doorways, one leading to the South Church and the other to a through pend.

The north elevation mirrors the south but has an un-buttressed gable and undecorated parapets.

Inside, there are some partitions and a mezzanine added at the south end. The church boasts impressive timber and plaster rib vaulting that imitates stone, springing from ashlar pilaster piers. The interior also features 20th-century stained glass and a concealed plaster-panelled ceiling in adjoining rooms, which were formerly part of a gallery.

Local climate

Old St Paul's And St David's Church, City Churches, Nethergate, Dundee receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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