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The Scots Presbyterian Church is a ruined former church on Seán McDermott Street (formerly Gloucester Street North or Gloucester Street Lower) in Dublin 1, Ireland. The church was designed in a Greek revival style by architect Duncan Campbell Ferguson and completed in 1846.

The building operated as a Presbyterian church from 1846 until 1888 when the congregation moved to the nearby Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church. The building continued to operate as a sometime church for various services until 1896 at which point the building began being used by the Salvation Army. The building was then converted into a flour mill in the early 1900s but its external appearance remained largely the same. It was operated by AW Ennis Limited until a fire 1980s forced the business to move resulting

An earlier protestant church names St. Thomas' (1758) also on Sean McDermott Street was demolished some time in the early 1900s. It is believed the church was modelled on Palladio’s Redentore in Venice.

Architecture
The church was constructed with a prostyle tetrastyle pedimented portico with four fluted Doric columns on a stylobate supporting frieze with Greek script which have the words "ΜΟΝΩ ΣΟΦΩ ΘΕΩ ΣΩΤΗΡI ΗΜΩΝ ΔOΞH", referring to a biblical passage from Romans 16:27.

The majority of the external features remained intact until the 1980s with a Dublin City Council photo from 1968 detailing the external walls, chimneys and roof as they would have been when the building was first constructed. Following the fire, the majority of the building was demolished for safety reasons. The remaining facade and side walls now sit at the front of 2000s apartment development although many of the main features are still intact.

The buildings status is currently listed as at 'moderate' by An Taisce.