Catholic Apostolic Church, Dudhope Crescent Road, Dundee

The Catholic Apostolic Church, located on Dudhope Crescent Road in Dundee, was constructed in 1867 by Charles Edward and Thomas Saunders Robertson, with a hall added later by George A. Harris between 1901 and 1903. This seven-bay Gothic church features an aisled design, a canted apse, an entrance gable facing outwards, a north transept, and a hall building attached to the northeast.

The external structure is built from stugged and snecked sandstone rubble with cream ashlar dressings, and a grey slate roof incorporating purple fishscale bands. Notable features include a continuous cill course intersected by buttresses, eaves courses, lancet windows with chamfered margins (paired to the aisles and clerestory, elongated in the apse with tracery at the top), ashlar-coped gables, cast-iron rainwater goods, decorative cast-iron ridge cresting culminating in a cross-finial at the apse, and a tall, finialled octagonal fleche.

The south elevation showcases an advanced entrance gable with a two-leaf panelled door featuring a quatrefoil fanlight, a doorcase with nook shafts and a multiple-moulded pointed arch, and paired windows above with a quatrefoil in a pointed-arch panel. The right side features a pentice-roofed aisle with six paired windows, and above that, six paired windows to the clerestory. The west elevation has three tall lancet windows, a wheel window above, a single window to the gable on the right, and paired windows to the aisle on the left. A small, single-story vestry adjoins the left side, containing a door, two windows, and a gable stack. The east elevation exhibits a canted, buttressed apse with dormer-headed windows, additional dormerheaded windows to the returns, and a two-light pointed-arch window to the aisles on both sides.

The north elevation includes an advanced vestry, paired windows to the aisle and clerestory on the left, partially masked by the piend-roofed transept.

Inside, the church boasts a six-bay nave and aisles supported by stout, clustered piers with stiff-leaf capitals, some depicting carved fauna. The roof is a high, scissor-braced timber structure, with fine stencilling in the chancel roof. It contains late 19th-century timber altarpieces, stalls, and Gothic parclose screens, as well as a carved stone front. The organ, originally built in 1867 by Peter Conacher of Huddersfield, was refurbished in 1937 and again in 1986. A pulpit was added in 1952 by Lord Roberts Workshop. The church holds original stained glass windows in the chancel and Resurrection Chapel (the latter dating from 1911), along with war memorial windows that were previously in Blinshall Street. Windows originate from St John's, Highbury, by Heaton, Butler and Bayne (1875), and St Peter's, Oxford. A porch and north aisle contains windows depicting ‘The Six Acts of Mercy’ from the former Feltham Borstal Chapel, Middlesex, in a Pre-Raphaelite style. The west rose window was added in 1979 by John Baird of Glasgow.

The hall, a single-story building adjoining the right side of the east elevation, features a conically-roofed entrance tower with a gabled doorpiece, pointed-arch windows with a continuous hoodmould, and a chamfered corner on the right.

The boundary wall, constructed of ashlar-coped rubble, runs along the east and west elevations. Original pointed-arch pattern wrought-iron railings are present on the east side, while the west side has more modern, plain railings.