St Margaret's Church, 17 Ancrum Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1993. Church.
St Margaret's Church, 17 Ancrum Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- iron-spindle-bittern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Constituency
- Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1993
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NO 381 312
- Coordinates
- 56.46927, -3.00533
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Margaret's Church, located at 17 Ancrum Road in Dundee, was designed by Reverend E. Sugden and completed in 1888. This cruciform-plan church features an apsidal chancel, transepts, and an unfinished nave.
The elevation facing Ancrum Road is partially obscured by a later hall built in 1921. It includes a small square two-stage tower that is harled, except for a roll-moulded opening. The church has a swept prismatic slate roof. The south end of the nave is also harled and features a wide segmental-arched opening on the ground floor, which is bipartite. The piended roof extends to provide shelter for the bell.
The transepts and chancel are constructed of low hammer-dressed rubble walls and have small-paned windows. They are topped with prismatic roofs and a continuous clerestory adorned with cusped timber tracery. The slate roofs of the chancel and transepts are finished with wrought-iron finials.
Inside, the church boasts a radial braced crown-post roof supported by timber posts. A delicate wrought-iron chancel screen separates the chancel from the nave. There is a circular Baroque carved timber pulpit from the 18th century, which is of German origin, along with a marble and alabaster altar. The painted reredos behind the altar is now whitewashed but is framed in carved timber and flanks traceried sedilia. An angel baptismal font from Italy is also present. The nave is short and has continuous clerestory lights, some of which feature simple stained glass.
Local climate
St Margaret's Church, 17 Ancrum Road, 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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