Dundee, Barrack Street, Central Reading Room

Museum (20th Century)

Site Name Dundee, Barrack Street, Central Reading Room

Classification Museum (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 2 Ward Road; Barrack Street Museum

Canmore ID 184745

Site Number NO43SW 296

NGR NO 40059 30356

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/184745

Digital Images

DP 106632

General view of former Central Reading Room, Barrack Street, Dundee, taken from the NNE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

29/9/2011

DP 086585

View of Central Reading Room, Dundee, from E.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

16/9/2010

DP 106633

Detail of main entrance of former Central Reading Room, Barrack Street, Dundee, taken from the NE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

29/9/2011

DP 106634

Detail of main entrance of former Central Reading Room, Barrack Street, Dundee, taken from the NE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

29/9/2011

DP 086586

View of Central Reading Room, Barrack Street from NE

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

16/9/2010

SC 2247052

General view of Ward Chapel and YMCA, formerly Watt Institution, Constitution Road, Dundee.

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Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

6/1953

DP 106636

Detail of arch above main entrance of former Central Reading Room, Barrack Street, Dundee, taken from the NE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

29/9/2011

SC 1652818

General view from North-East.

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List C Survey

1975

SC 2629363

View from North-East.

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9/1989

DP 106635

Detail of pediment above main entrance of former Central Reading Room, Barrack Street, Dundee, taken from the NE.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

29/9/2011

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Administrative Areas

Council Dundee, City Of
Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
Former Region Tayside
Former District City Of Dundee
Former County Angus

Summary Record (2011)

Designed by James Thomson (1911), paid for by Andrew Carnegie as the Ward Road Library (Central Branch Library and Central Reading Room).

Activities

Photographic Survey (16 September 2010)

Photographed by RCAHMS for the Buildings of Scotland series.

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