Dundee - Invergowrie All Souls Epis Church

All Souls Episcopal Church was funded by Frances, Lady Kinnaird, who competed with Lady Armitstead who set up the parish church along the road. It was a memorial to her late husband. It was built by Hippolyte Blanc in 1890/96 and he used an Early English style.

Construction materials: Stone (sandstone) - Used for walls; Slate - Used for roof;

The church is built in striking red stone to a confident design. It has a central tower and spire that contains a single bell 35 inches in diameter. It was cast by John Taylor and Co of Loughborough in 1930. The interior features a stone pulpit, marble reredos and excellent fittings. Written and researched by J. Dowling, 15/10/04. Added to 19/11/04.

The church is aligned essentially north /south with the entrance porch at the north of the west wall. It is built in  reed rock-faced sandstone with fair-faced dressings and a slated roof. The windows are all pointed arches. 

The north gable has a tall window  with a hood moulding and block label-stops. It contains three lancet lights, two round-lobed trefoil light, a round-lobed hexafoi light and tracery. It also has two cylindrical column side mouldings and two arch roll mouldings. The north aisle ends have small lancet windows with ahood mouldings and foliated label-stops. 

The side aisles are lean-to and have five bays on the nave. These have narrow lancet windows with hood mouldings and block label-stops. Above on the nave wall are larger windows with the same hood arrangement. They contain two lancets and y-tracery.

The transept gables have large windows with hood mouldings and block label-stops. They contain two lancet lights, a round-lobed cinquefoil and tracery. High up are three small graded rectangular slit windows.

The south gable window with three main lights. 

To the rear, south east, are offices/halls.

The west wall mirrors that of the east except for the entrance porch at the north end of the aisle. The open porch is buttressed and has a pointed arch entrance with a hood moulding and foliated label-stops, two cylindrical side mouldings and two arch roll mouldings. Inside are stone benches. The north wall of the transept has a smallish pointed arch doorway.

Interior is exposed ashlar stonework with a tall pointed chancel arch and smaller aisle arches. The former has multiple cylindical side mouldings and arch roll mouldings and the latter are supported on quatrefoil columns. The aisles have timber monopitch roofs with ribs and beams. The chancel has timber vaulting and panelling. The nave roof is supported on hammer-beam trusses springing from corbels and is in exposed timber. The nave has all individual seating with a simple wooden altar at the south end. Its floor is laid in parquet tiles.

The choir has its floor tiled. The stone dividing wall with arcading replaced a screen of about 1920. The organ casing dates to 1912 and was by Freeman and Ogilvy. The organ of that date was by John R Miller.

The chancel has an ornate stone altar, a tall highly cusped reredos and two statues by Farmer & Brindley and dated 1896. The reredos has a large alabaster cricifix. 

The stone font dates to 1896 and is by Carnegie & Son. They also made the pulpit from a design by James Hutton. The brass lectern could date to about 1700. 

The altar in the side chapel was by Allardice and Napier. It dates to 1865/66 and was made for Rossie Priory.