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Logie And St John's (Cross) Parish Church, Blackness Avenue, Dundee

A Category B Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4575 / 56°27'26"N

Longitude: -2.9969 / 2°59'48"W

OS Eastings: 338658

OS Northings: 729925

OS Grid: NO386299

Mapcode National: GBR Z6X.J8

Mapcode Global: WH7R9.YY2H

Plus Code: 9C8VF243+X6

Entry Name: Logie And St John's (Cross) Parish Church, Blackness Avenue, Dundee

Listing Name: Blackness Avenue, Shaftesbury Avenue and Shaftesbury Terrace, Logie and St John's (Cross) Parish Church and Halls (Church of Scotland)

Listing Date: 4 February 1965

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361591

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25368

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dundee, Blackness Avenue, Logie And St John's (cross) Parish Church

ID on this website: 200361591

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: West End

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

Frank Thomson (H and F Thomson) 1911-14. Romanesque church and halls, snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings and pilaster buttresses. Cross plan with transepts and lower 1-bay sanctuary at W. Unfinished SE tower. Romanesque arched doorways to E gable and S face of tower. Paired windows between buttresses in aisles, single windows at clerestory, stepped triplets at gables, shafted at E gable. Celtic cross finials at corbelled-out E and W gables.

L-plan N wing and old hall with 2-light round-arched windows and Romanesque door in E gable, modern door in W gable. Green slate roofs.

INTERIOR: concrete faced with ashlar dressings. Tall wide nave with timber-clad barrel-vaulted roof, separated from narrow aisles by arcade of stout piers with cushion capitals, clerestory above. Taller piers to transepts; organ in S transept: furnishings from Logie Parish Church in N transept. Chevron moulding details in chancel. E gallery over barrel-vaulted vestibule.

Wooden furnishings and organ have interlaced celtic theme. Red tiled floors. Aisle windows stained glass, post WWII, some by A L Russell. Old hall 5-bay barrel-vault, altered 1974 by Robbie and Wellwood when second, larger hall was added, brick with monopitch roofs.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Known as Logie and St John?s (Cross) Church following amalgamation with the congregation of Logie Parish Church, now demolished, situated on South Street.

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