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Latitude: 56.4615 / 56°27'41"N
Longitude: -2.9748 / 2°58'29"W
OS Eastings: 340025
OS Northings: 730352
OS Grid: NO400303
Mapcode National: GBR Z9D.HH
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.8VNF
Plus Code: 9C8VF26G+H3
Entry Name: Baptist Church, 6 Ward Road, Dundee
Listing Name: 6 Ward Road Baptist Church
Listing Date: 30 March 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361956
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25614
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200361956
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Protestant church building
Thomas M Cappon, 1895. Galleried Gothic church with basement hall. Squared and snecked red sandstone rubble to front with ashlar dressings, red brick to sides and rear, green slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Octagonal louvred fleche ventilator.
FRONT ELEVATION: central gabled bay advanced with 6-light hoodmoulded basement window; large 2-storey 6-light canted oriel over with 3 crocket-finialled gablets; louvred stepped lancets to apex with cross finial. Pointed-arch entrance at left in crenellated porch, set-back single-light to left and 3-light geometric-traceried window over. Bay to right set-back with door and side window within large pointed-arch hoodmould, quatrefoil tracery in tympanum, similar geometric-traceried
window over.
SIDE ELEVATIONS: N-most bays piend-roofed, advanced for stairs. 2-storey 3-bay buttressed flanks with pointed-arch traceried windows, gabletted to 1st floor piercing eaves. Canted apsidal rear with 2 pointed-arch windows, tracery altered to carry stained glass windows. Modern dry-dashed extension.
INTERIOR: braced collar beam roof with traceried spandrels on cast-iron columns, galleried aisles and rear with original dark woodwork and clock, later extended to carry organ over altar and baptistry, remodelled with lighter woodwork. Marble font, stepped for total immersion. 2 stained glass war memorial windows; cathedral glass elsewhere. Painted murals of biblical scenes in hall.
An ecclesiastical building in use as such.
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