Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BROUGHTY FERRY, 151 BROOK STREET, YMCA GYMNASIUMLB25767

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
29/10/1991
Supplementary Information Updated
19/10/2018
Local Authority
Dundee
Planning Authority
Dundee
Burgh
Dundee
NGR
NO 46050 30996
Coordinates
346050, 730996

Description

George MacLaren, 1893. Large rectangular-plan, 5-bay gymnasium. Red and ochre bricks, slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Base course, cream brick dressing and pilasters at south and east elevations, lean-to extension at north, jerkin-head roof with dormers at north and south.

South Elevation: advanced gabled entrance porch at centre, rainwater pipe at right with decorative brackets.

East Elevation: gauged brick decorative panel at centre inscribed 'the gift of Alexander Jefferson Buist, Esq, president 1893'.

Interior: largely original; timber hardwood floor, painted boarded dado, lined waggon roof with simple traceried collar braces.

Statement of Special Interest

This building is an architecturally distinctive, purpose-built gymnasium for the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). The building was designed by George MacLaren of James McLaren and Sons. The Dean of Guild drawings are dated March 1893 and the inaugural event was held in the building on 26 December 1893 (Dundee Courier, 27 December 1893). It was funded by Alexander Jefferson Buist, who was president of the Broughty Ferry YMCA association.

The YMCA was founded in London in 1844 and started in Scotland in 1848 (although similar organisations had existed before then). The organisation grew rapidly and by 1876 there were 62 Scottish associations. The Broughty Ferry YMCA was established in 1866. The Broughty Ferry YMCA was established in 1866.

See separate listing for the YMCA building at same address (LB25766).

Listed building record updated in 2018.

References

Bibliography

Archives

Minutes of Broughty Ferry YMCA, 31st March 1893, DARC, GD/YM/BF 1/2

Broughty Ferry ADPs, Book 1, p.183.

Printed Sources

Dundee Courier (14 April 1893) p.7.

Dundee Courier (27 December 1893) p.2.

Online Sources

World YMCA. YMCA Scotland at http://www.ymca.int/member/ymca-in-europe/ymca-scotland/ (accessed 19/10/2018).

YMCA Scotland at http://www.ymcascotland.org/about-us/ (accessed 19/10/2018).

About Listed Buildings

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