Baptist Church, Rattray Street, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1995. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Baptist Church, Rattray Street, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- south-ashlar-harvest
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1995
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Baptist Church, Rattray Street, Dundee, DD1 1NA
- OS grid reference
- NO 399 304
- Coordinates
- 56.46207, -2.97607
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Baptist Church on Rattray Street in Dundee was designed by Alexander McCulloch and completed in 1878. This former church features a rectangular plan and an aisleless layout, showcasing a Gothic facade. The front is constructed with painted stugged coursers, while the sides and rear are made of rubble, complemented by ashlar dressings and a grey slate roof.
The front elevation has a base course and a stepped cill course leading to the first floor. It is flanked by buttresses on either side of a wide central bay, which is topped with large octagonal finials and spirelets. The buttresses at the corners feature pyramidal-capped square-section finials. The first floor includes three-light pointed-arch windows, lancets, square-headed windows, and oculi, with cusped three-light lancets on the sides. The ashlar-coped skews at the front are finished with a finial.
The central entrance features two leaf doors that are partly diagonally boarded, set within a moulded pointed-arch doorcase with nookshafts that have stiff-leaf capitals. Above the doors is a hoodmould and a fanlight with a trefoil, flanked by two oculi that are intertwined with a sculpted vine motif. This is all framed by a slightly advanced doorpiece topped with a gablet over the parapet, which is flanked by single lancets. The first floor has a large pointed-arch panel with a tall cusped lancet in the center, flanked by buttresses and three-light windows with a rose window above. There are staircase bays on both the left and right, each featuring a bipartite window with a lancet and an oculus. A name panel is located over the bipartite window on the left, while a date panel is on the right.
On the left return elevation, there are three three-light lancets. The right return elevation features five three-light lancets.
Inside, the ground floor has a hall, while the church area above includes a collar roof and a panelled chancel area with an organ gallery and a marble baptismal pool. Various wall-mounted memorials are also present.
Local climate
Baptist Church, Rattray 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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