Dundee paid tribute to Professor Charles McKean this weekend, with a memorial service at St Mary’s Nethergate.
Church bells rang out across the city centre as scores of friends, family and former colleagues attended the service for the late architecture professor.
The Lord Provost was among prominent attendees at the memorial for Professor McKean, who passed away in September.
The 67-year-old was the foremost authority on Scottish architectural history and his distinguished career saw him appointed architecture correspondent for The Times newspaper and chairman of the Unesco Edinburgh World Heritage Trust.
In 1995, he was appointed head of the School of Architecture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, part of Dundee University, before taking up his position as professorof Scottish architectural history in the university’s history department in 1997.
A passionate advocate of preserving Dundee’s architectural history, the professor led hundreds of walking tours of the city over the past two decades.
After his death, universityvice-principal ProfessorChristopher Whatley described him as “a dear colleague and friend and will be sadly missed by all”.
“Charles McKean was a major voice in Scottish architecture and history and someone who made a tremendous impact in everything he did. Our thoughts are with his family,” he said.