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Park U.P Church, 18 Park Avenue, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Maryfield, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4714 / 56°28'17"N

Longitude: -2.9554 / 2°57'19"W

OS Eastings: 341237

OS Northings: 731441

OS Grid: NO412314

Mapcode National: GBR ZCJ.ZS

Mapcode Global: WH7RB.KLWS

Plus Code: 9C8VF2CV+HR

Entry Name: Park U.P Church, 18 Park Avenue, Dundee

Listing Name: 18 Park Avenue and Return to Morgan Street, Park Church (Of Scotland)

Listing Date: 30 June 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361504

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25294

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, 18 Park Avenue, Park U.p Church

ID on this website: 200361504

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Maryfield

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Leslie Ower, 1898-9. Spired church on tight corner site
with unusual plan using Gothic-derived details. Snecked
rubble.
Square section unbuttressed tower on canted angle.
Chamfered pointed-arched entrance with Gothic fanlight
under pointed dripmould. Square-headed single and
bipartite lights over. Louvred crenellated belfry stage.
Facetted needle spire with wrought-iron finial.
ELEVATION TO PARK AVENUE: large 2-bay gable, buttressed
and finialled. Large 4-light windows with slim mullions at
ground floor. Pointed Y-traceried windows over. Twin
louvred lancets at apex. Small curved corbelled bay with
fish-scale slate roof fills re-entrant with tower.
ELEVATION TO MORGAN STREET: similar but narrower, taller
and steeper gable. Bowed stair turret with fishscale
slate roof.
HALL, PARK AVENUE: 2-storey, basket-arched bipartites.
Lower porch. Low boundary wall to Park Avenue, modern
railings.
Steep slate roofs with ridge tiles. Leaded glass windows
to church, lying-pane sash and case windows to hall.
Galleried interior, collar-beam roof with carved false
hammer beams.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such.

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