St Columba's Church And Hall Of Scotland, Main Street, Invergowrie, Dundee

St Columba's Church and Hall of Scotland stands on Main Street in Invergowrie, Dundee, designed by John Robertson in 1909. The complex comprises a rectangular-plan Gothic church with a three-stage tower at its north-west angle, a north aisle, and an adjoining hall with vestry at the south-east angle, forming an L-shaped composition.

The church is constructed in bull-faced, snecked pink and cream rubble masonry with droved ashlar dressing and a grey slate roof. A deep base course is surmounted by a chamfered wallhead course with modillion-type decoration extending to a string course on the west elevation and tower. Pointed windows feature moulded surrounds and bull-faced outer voussoirs, with geometric tracery to the east and west gables and south elevation. Elsewhere are trefoil-headed single windows, while cinquefoil and sexfoil clerestorey windows sit within moulded round panels on the north elevation. Multiple moulded Gothic doorways on the west elevation have two-leaf trefoil-headed panelling reflected in fanlights above. Buttresses with rounded angles have raked coping to the north and south elevations and are clasping at the angles, corbelled to hexagonal form with tall facetted pinnacles and crocketted finials. The gables have coped skews with cross finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods and rectangular downpipes complete the external detailing.

The tower features rounded angles, corbelled to hexagonal at first-stage level with a stair tower to the north-east angle. It rises to a crenellated and stepped ashlar parapet. The hall employs similar details except for a plain wallhead course and hexagonal angle buttresses, with conically-roofed stair and angle towers and some cast-iron weathervane finials.

The west elevation displays a gable to the right, a door to the centre and large window above flanked by buttresses and windows to ground and gallery level. The tower to the left has a ground-floor door, first-stage window, a tall third stage with louvred belfry opening to all elevations, windows to the ground and first stages on the left return, two windows to ground and first stages of the stair tower, and four to the third stage.

The south elevation contains four tall windows to the nave articulated by buttresses. A single-storey vestry to the right has a door and three windows with two hexagonal wallhead stacks. A bow-ended element to the right return has three windows and a half-piended roof with two cast-iron weathervane finials, with a window to a slightly lower chancel above. An advanced gable to the left has clasping buttresses with a window to the ground and upper level in a recessed panel and a cinquefoil window to the gablehead.

The north elevation has four bays to the centre articulated by buttresses, three windows to each aisle bay and a single clerestorey window to each bay. The tower stands to the right. An obliquely rounded angle to the left contains a panelled door with fanlight within a crocketted pointed arch, with two chancel windows above. The church hall stands advanced to the far left.

The east gable features a central window, a bow-ended vestry to the left, and a window to a pentice-roofed bay to the right.

Interior walls are rendered and lined as snecked rubble with droved ashlar dressings. Four pointed arches with clustered piers support the aisle. A prominent timber roof features arch braces and collars, trefoil-headed trusses and a diagonally-boarded ceiling, with stone corbels at wallposts. A timber narthex screen with trefoil-headed tracery and leaded glazing divides the space. Pew ends are carved with cinquefoil detailing reflecting the clerestorey windows. A hexagonal oak pulpit with balustraded stairs features carved panels depicting vine, flowers and wheat. A stone bowl-and-stem font stands in the church. The chancel contains a two-manual and pedals organ by Joseph Brook and Co of Glasgow in a split organ case. Border-glazed windows light the interior. A stained glass panel door to the choir room depicts George Wishart preaching, removed from the former Free Church. Memorials on the south wall commemorate Donald Davidson, minister from 1901 to 1929, and Adam Philip, Free Church minister from 1881. War memorial plaques hang at the chancel arch. The vestry, porch and water closet have boarded walls and ceilings with original chimneypiece and basin.

The hall occupies two floors, probably originally galleried, with timber-clad cluster piers, four-centred arches and border-glazed windows. The vestry is boarded.

Nine ball-finialled ashlar-capped rubble gatepiers and a rubble boundary wall with round coping to the east define the site. The north and west boundaries have a low wall with saddleback coping and cast-iron gates and railings.