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English: Broughty Ferry Lifeboat Station and St. James Church

W T Douglass (Westminster), dated 1909. Single storey, rectangular-plan, lifeboat house. Snecked bull-faced rubble masonry, cast-iron rainwater goods, slate roof, steel and concrete slipway. Single angle buttresses, cross-windows with 2 panes at bottom, 8 at top, polished and margined reveals, chamfered cills. Ashlar skews, gabled apex, crowsteps by eaves at S. S GABLE: flat roofed projection from main gable with vertically sliding boat door and pedestrian door at left, both built into partially blocked formerly larger opening; safety rails left and right, slipway to shore; main gable set-back with '1909' at gablehead. N GABLE: memorial plaque at centre, window above, 'RNL-BI' at pediment. W ELEVATION: stairs with railings to door at left; 2 stepped windows at right; 2 rooflights. E ELEVATION: 2 stepped windows at left; flat-roofed projection with window at right. INTERIOR: Kingpost roof, with 1 hammerbeam to accommodate hoisted lifeboat. SLIPWAY: slipway extending from S gable over foreshore.

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Memorial plaque inscribed to the crew of the Mona, which went down with all hands, 8 December 1959. The first RNLI lifeboat was housed in a building on this site in 1862.

Source: data.historic-scotland.gov.uk
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