The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry | Goblinshead | A comprehensive guide to 4,100 castles, towers, historic houses, stately homes and family lands
The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry | Goblinshead | A comprehensive guide to 4,100 castles, towers, historic houses, stately homes and family lands
The Castles of Scotland
The Castles of Scotland 

Broughty Castle

Angus & Dundee: To south of Broughty Ferry, on minor roads south of A930, just north of shore of Firth of Tay, east of harbour, at Broughty Castle.

 

Private   NO 465304   OS: 54   DD5 2TF

 

OPEN: Open Apr-Sep, Mon-Sat 10.00-16.00, Sun 12.30-16.00; Oct-Mar, Tue-Sat 10.00-16.00, Sun 12.30-16.00, closed Mon in winter.
Tel: 01382 436916   Web: www.leisureandculturedundee.com

Checked 20/04/18

Broughty Castle is a tall and impressive old tower, one held by the Grays and now housing a museum, located by the harbour at Broughty Ferry on the Tay, in Angus in eastern Scotland. Broughty Castle (old postcard)

Overlooking the mouth of the Tay and an imposing edifice, Broughty Castle consists of a tall 15th-century tower of five storeys and a garret within a later machicolated parapet. It has been much altered, and was given low artillery emplacements in the 19th century, the wing dating from this time.
  A stair climbs in the thickness of the walls in one corner, and is crowned by a gabled caphouse.

Broughty Castle is a tall and impressive old tower, one held by the Grays and now housing a museum, located by the harbour at Broughty Ferry on the Tay, in Angus in eastern Scotland. Broughty Castle (old postcard)

‘Brugh-Tay’ is marked on Pont‘s map of Perthshire and Angus, and is depicted as a tower of four storeys with battlements and lower wings or towers.
  The Grays built the original castle in the 1490s. During the English invasion of Scotland in 1547-50, Patrick, 4th Lord Gray, a treacherous fellow, delivered up Broughty Castle to the English. From here, and the fort on Balgillo Hill, they harried Dundee. The castle was stormed by the Scots with French help in 1550, and was partly demolished. It was complete enough, however, to be held for Mary, Queen of Scots, by the Hamilton Duke of Chatelherault, until 1571. William Gray had a ratification of 1641, which mentions the Crag of Broughty, with castle, fortalice, etc. The castle was taken by General Monck for Cromwell in 1651, and Alexander Leslie, Earl of Leven, was imprisoned here.
  David Fotheringham of Powrie and his son had a ratification of 1669 which lists the lands of Broughty castle, tower, fortalice etc. The castle, fortalice etc are again mentioned in judicial proceedings of Lord Gray in 1703.
  By 1821, the castle was a roofless ruin, but was eventually bought by the War Office in 1851, radically enlarged and altered internally, and given gun emplacements. The castle is now a museum of whaling and fishery, arms and armour, a branch of Dundee museums since 1969. There are fine views of the Tay.

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