Dundee Cathedral
Dundee Cathedral
St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Cathedral on Nethergate, Dundee, is a Category B listed church of 1835 by George Mathewson, Dundee’s first post-Reformation Catholic church and, since 1924, cathedral of the Diocese of Dunkeld.
- Location
- Dundee, Tayside
- Country
- Scotland
- County
- Tayside
- City / town
- Dundee
- Address
- Nethergate, Dundee, Tayside, DD1 4EA
- Postcode
- DD1 4EA
- Built
- 1835; apse 1921; elevated to cathedral 1924
- Architect
- George Mathewson; apse by C. J. Menart
- Denomination
- Catholic Church
- Dedication
- Andrew
- Diocese
- Dunkeld
- Parish
- St Andrew's Cathedral, Dundee
- Grade
- Category B
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Pale sandstone ashlar façade; rubble sides with ashlar dressings; grey slate roof
- Grid reference
- NO 400 299
- Opening hours
- Monday to Wednesday 9.30am to 3.30pm, Thursday and Friday 9.30am to 2pm, Saturday 9.30am to 3.30pm.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic Environment Scotland lists 150 Nethergate, including the presbytery and a former sea wall to the south, designated on 4 February 1965. Mathewson designed a rectangular-plan aisleless church with a Gothic façade, basement halls and a four-storey, five-bay presbytery against the south gable. The façade is pale sandstone ashlar with tall Tudor-arch traceried windows, hoodmoulds and mask stops, and buttresses with crocketed finials; the sides are rubble with ashlar dressings under a grey slate roof. C. J. Menart added the apse in 1921. The building occupies the site of the old Town Hospital; the southern boundary wall is an eighteenth-century sea wall of that hospital.
In the 1840s the basement halls housed the only Catholic school in the city. The church became a cathedral in 1924. It remains the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Dunkeld.