Bandstand, Magdalen Green, Dundee is a Grade A listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 May 1986. Bandstand.

Bandstand, Magdalen Green, Dundee

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dundee City
Constituency
Dundee Central MP: Chris Law (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 May 1986
Type
Bandstand
OS grid reference
NO 387 294
Coordinates
56.45306, -2.99473
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The bandstand at Magdalen Green in Dundee was designed by Walter MacFarlane and Co from the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow and completed in 1889. It features an ornate octagonal plan set on a concrete moulded base. The structure is supported by cast-iron columns with Corinthianesque capitals at the corners, which hold up cusped segmentally arched cast-iron spandrels decorated with intricate traceried open work. An elaborate frieze with leaf motifs masks the angles, and there is a projecting cornice adorned with pierced iron antefixae. The roof is an ogee dome made of metal, featuring a pendant arched valence in the middle and topped with a tall cast and wrought-iron crown finial. Surrounding the bandstand are arabesque cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Bandstand, Magdalen Green, 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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