St Marks Church, 158 Perth Road, Dundee

Frederick T Pilkington (Pilkington and Bell) 1868-9, extended

1879 by Ireland and MacLaren. Muscular well-detailed and

massed gothic church with steeple and basement hall. Two-tone

ashlar with coloured bands and details.

TOWER and spire at NE corner: shoulder arched door in

pointed porch to E, advanced gablet to N with 2-light window

and hexafoil rose. Square tower with clasping buttresses

chamfered at 3 stages. Paired louvred lancets at belfry

stage, linked at base of 2nd stage and at impost level by

dog-tooth bands. Octagonal spire with decorated bands and

finials.

Impressively wide N ELEVATION: elaborate centre piece with

paired pointed-arched doorways under taller arches

depressed 1 arched with hexafoil and carving in tympana,

carved foliated band course all within wide arched porch.

Large pointed arches recess over, with twin 2-light windows,

quatrefoils and hexafoil in elaborately carved tympana. Cross

finial. Similar but simpler windows to gablets flanking door.

Stepped blind arcading over. 2-light window to right bay,

tall gabletted lancet over, breaks eaves of steep pavilion

roof. Wrought-iron finial.

W ELEVATION: left to right: steep pyramidal roof over twin

lancets, 3 advanced asymmetrical gabletted bays; 2-light with

quatrefoil at left; centre 4-light with large trefoiled

tympanum, 5-light bow at ground floor; right (added 1879)

smaller 4-light gable; slightly advanced at ground floor.

E elevation similar. Finials missing.

REAR ELEVATION Ireland and MacLaren, 1879: pyramidal-roofed

turrets with wrought-iron finials and cusped lancets in

re-entrant angles between side gables and chancel, chamfered

infill at ground floor. Large rose in S gable. Gable end

stack. Vestry 2-storey, 2 bays of shouldered arched windows

to S, blank chamfered wall to neighbouring property.

Session House/hall, single storey, canted E elevation with

cusped lancets and vesica.

Slate roofs. Small-pane leaded glazing, some stained glass.

Cathedral panes to vestry and hall.

INTERIOR U-plan gallery on stout masonry columns and timber

twisted barley-sugar columns. Slim cast-iron columns at

gallery level carry hammerbeam roofs of gables, timber with

wrought-iron ties. Ornate bowed timber pulpit and organ case

(minus pipes). Original pews and light fittings. Stained glass

windows, 4 in 1897 and 4 by Stephen Adam, Glasgow 1903.