St Margaret's Church, Invermark Terrace, Barnhill, Dundee

St Margaret's Church is a cruciform-plan, aisleless church in late Scots Gothic style, located on Invermark Terrace in Barnhill, Dundee. The building was constructed in phases: the nave was built in 1895 under the direction of Duncan Carmichael (London) based on sketches by Charles Carmichael of Aberdeen (died Johannesburg 1895); the transepts were added to the original design under T Lindsay Gray of Dundee in 1933; and a session room and vestries were constructed by T Lindsay Gray in 1979.

The church is constructed of pink rock-faced and snecked masonry with buff long and short dressings and a green slate roof. The apse and vestries are rendered brick and harled with polished dressings. Windows are predominantly 3-light with intersecting or geometric tracery, hoodmoulds and mask label stops.

The north elevation comprises five bays with a porch positioned in the second bay from the right. The porch features diagonal buttresses capped with short crocketted pinnacles and a moulded Gothic arch on nook shafts (replaced with glass doors in 1984). A sculpted figure of St Margaret of Scotland sits in a canopied niche above, set within a crowstepped gable. Lancet windows occupy the east and west elevations of this section. A round-headed arch to the nave incorporates daisy, thistle and rose motifs and is topped by a fine rib-vaulted ceiling with a lion rampant and thistle wreath boss. The north transept projects from the left with angle buttresses and a large central window with a narrow light extending to the roof. The south elevation is similar but lacks a porch. The west gable elevation has angle buttresses, a large window with curvilinear tracery and a Celtic cross finial. The east elevation features a polygonal apse with four square timber-frame windows abutting the east gable, and a belfry in the apex above (bell dated 1895). A single-storey, three-bay flat-roofed addition (possibly from 1979) houses the vestries.

Internally, the masonry is lightly picked and snecked with long and short polished dressings and a cill course of grey ashlar. The roof is collar-braced, with braces supported on corbels sculpted with the arms of European families, some descended from St Margaret.

The nave west window was modelled on a similar example at Seton Chapel, East Lothian, and was glazed in 1933 as a war memorial. The nave north and south contain seven saints' windows, unusually including the Blessed Virgin. Five of these windows were previously installed in the temporary church (1884–95). The north transept contains a memorial window to Norman Patullo by Herbert Hendrie of Edinburgh, circa 1937. The south transept holds a memorial to Clement Godfrey, a jute merchant, by T T and C E Stewart of Glasgow, dated 1933. The font was designed by Charles Carmichael and executed by David Tocher, mason of Broughty Ferry. The pulpit was designed by Charles Soutar, circa 1912. A brass eagle lectern (1896) is a replica of one given to Holyrood Abbey by Abbot George Crighton when he was made Bishop of Dunkeld by James IV in 1526 (the original is now in St Stephen's Church, St Alban's, Hertfordshire).

The congregation was established in 1884 in a galvanised iron church, which had previously been used in Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen and St Luke's, Broughty Ferry. This temporary structure was subsequently incorporated into the church hall to the south. The external stone of the nave is reputed to come from Brox and Drumyellow quarries, both east of Denhead of Arbirlot, Arbroath, while the internal stone is from Drumyellow. The porch design was adapted from St Mary's, Whitekirk, North Berwick. The church's name was modelled on the Collegiate Church at Biggar. Charles Carmichael's original sketch included a chancel and tower at the crossing, neither of which was built. The kinship, if any, between Charles and Duncan Carmichael remains unestablished. Charles Carmichael was a founding member of the Aberdeen Ecclesiological Society, as was the Reverend Thomas Newbigging Adamson, the church's first minister (1884–1911), whose ecclesiological interests strongly influenced the church's design based upon a published view of a church designed by Charles Carmichael.

The tradesmen who worked on the nave in 1895 were: James Scott (mason, Broughty Ferry), Ellis and Macher (joiners, Broughty Ferry), Peter Lorimer (plumber, Broughty Ferry), James Laburn and Sons (plasterers and slaters, Dundee), R Farquharson and Son (glaziers, Dundee) and N Norwell (painter, Dundee).