St Luke's And Queen Street Church, West Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee

St Luke's and Queen Street Church

This Grade A listed building stands on West Queen Street in Broughty Ferry, Dundee. It was designed by architect Hippolyte J Blanc and built between 1883 and 1884.

The church is a cruciform-plan, aisled Gothic style structure with a clerestorey, polygonal apse, a porch at the south-west, and a classroom at the north-east, with later additions at the north-east. The exterior is finished in pink rock-faced and snecked rubble masonry with polished long and short dressings. The roof is green slate with terracotta decorative ridge tiles.

The window scheme is distinctly Gothic. The aisles and transepts feature paired and stepped lancets, whilst the clerestorey has 3-light windows with Y tracery and chamfered margins with hoodmoulds and label stops on the south elevation. The apse has single trefoil-headed windows with continuous hoodmould. The west elevation displays paired 2-light Y-traceried windows flanked by 3 smaller blind lancets, all featuring nook shafts, colonettes and continuous hoodmould.

The south elevation includes a porch at the left (originally intended to form the first stage of a tower and spire) with set-back buttresses and a fine multiple moulded Gothic arched entrance on triple nook shafts with foliate capitals. A 2-leaf panelled door with blind plate tracery sits beneath. A string course and moulded trefoil appear at the gable head, with a wallhead dormer and lancet at the west. The 4-bayed nave has an aisle with buttresses, paired lights and lean-to roof. The south transept features set-back buttresses with gargoyles, cill course, stepped lancets, and a moulded quatrefoil with hoodmould and label stops at the gable head. A fleche with weather vane rises over the crossing.

The north elevation is similar to the south, with a classroom in the re-entrant angle at the east and a polygonal vestry (originally a ladies' powder room) at the west.

The east elevation shows the 5-light apse, a lower organ chamber set back at the left, and a single-storey classroom at the right with a moulded Gothic-arched gabled door, adjoining a modern addition.

The west elevation features a central moulded Gothic-arched entrance with continuous hoodmould flanked by paired lancets, a cill course, two large windows at gallery level, and a moulded vesica with hoodmould and label stops at roof space. A Celtic cross finial crowns the elevation, with set-back buttresses with gargoyles, a porch at the right, and a polygonal vestry with lancets and buttressed aisle at the left.

The interior is original and richly detailed throughout. The narthex features a fine mosaic floor by Burke and Co of Paris, with 2 moulded segmental arches on the north and south supported by paired marble shafts with moulded bell capitals on raised plinths and sculpted bases. A basket arched timber ceiling spans the space. Stairs at the north lead to the gallery with wrought-iron balusters and timber panelled dado, with a timber screen and doors featuring stained glass opening into the nave.

The 4-bayed nave has moulded Gothic arches on round Shap granite shafts with octagonal bases and moulded capitals. The spandrels feature terracotta diaper work, whilst the clerestorey and aisles are painted white and plastered. Two similar larger transeptal arches rest on Ross of Mull granite piers. A gallery at the west has timber panelling. The timber-lined collar braced roof features open-work at the crown, with braces rising from long wall shafts with variously sculptured corbels and moulded capitals. Original gasoliers, converted to electricity, hang throughout. A grained pulpit stands at the crossing on the left, with a lectern at the right. The Broughty Ferry Harmonium is housed in the south transept.

A moulded Gothic arch opens to the chancel, flanked by polished granite shafts with foliate corbels. The chancel has a timber panelled dado and an organ case in the south transept matching the dado design. The organ itself, by Gray and Davidson of London (1884), sits at the right and extends into the south transept. Choirstalls and a communion table occupy the apse, with a trefoil-headed door with hoodmould and label stops at the left. A rib-vaulted timber ceiling rises from wall shafts above the chancel arch.

The windows are mainly clear and stained glass patterned. Five Burne-Jones and William Morris windows in the apse, dating to 1884, depict biblical figures. These windows are a memorial to David Ogilvie, a manufacturer, and his daughter Catherine, gifted by his wife, who also donated the land for the church.