Ogilvie U. F. Church, Albert Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1989. Church. 1 related planning application.

Ogilvie U. F. Church, Albert Street, Dundee

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 June 1989
Type
Church
Address
Ogilvie U. F. Church, Albert Street, Dundee, DD4 6QW
OS grid reference
NO 411 315
Coordinates
56.47232, -2.95699
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ogilvie United Free Church, located on Albert Street in Dundee, was designed by Charles Edward and Thomas S Robertson and built in 1874 as a mission school, with an L-plan church added in 1876. The church occupies a prominent triangular site bordered by Albert, Eliza, and Dura Streets. It features a simple rubble-built gabled Gothic style with wooden tracery.

The entrance is situated at the base of a lozenge tower in the re-entrant angle, which includes lancet windows that light the stair at the lower stage, and tall louvred belfry windows above. The tower has two-light windows on the long sides and a single light on the short sides, topped with a blind trefoiled parapet and a slate broach spire that features a lucarne and a wrought-iron finial. A clock is also present.

To the left of the tower, there is a two-storey paired gabled gallery projection with quatrefoil traceried upper windows and lancets, along with a single-storey apsidal projecting vestry at the southeast angle, which has three gabled windows.

On the Eliza Street gable, the church is buttressed and features two-light traceried windows, a simple rose window, and a vesica, along with impost-level string courses. The Dura Street elevation has a shallow twin gabled projection with two two-light traceried windows and a two-storey three-gabled section to the left.

A rose window is present in the north gable, and there is a single-storey four-bay hall to the north with an apsidal end and modern skylights. A lower canted projection with a mansard roof was added in 1978, replacing the original apsidal gablets. The church has cathedral glazing and a slate roof.

Inside, the church has an L-plan layout with two galleries to the north and east, both featuring modern halls that extend into the upper pews. There is one single and one engaged shaft with stiff leaf capitals, and the roof consists of collar beams and hammer beams. The interior includes an early 20th-century pulpit, an organ, and some stained glass. The hall has had its hammer beam roof removed and a floor inserted.

Local climate

Ogilvie U. F. Church, Albert Street, 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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