Livingstone Hall

Livingstone Hall

The building now occupied by Newburgh Flooring is widely believed to have once been a church. In reality for much of its history it appears to have functioned as a church hall. In 1885 John Livingstone paid for the construction of a stone hall for 500 to 600 people on the east side of Newburgh. The hall was designed by the Dundee architect John Young, and cost £1,450. The building became known as Livingstone Hall in his honour. In the late 1920s the Church of Scotland took on responsibility for the building. The property documents recording this transfer specified that Livingstone Hall should be used for Sunday schools, Bible classes, choir practices, religious education, ‘benevolent purposes’, and lectures and entertainments ‘of an instructive and elevating character’. In the 1960s Livingstone Hall was converted to a garage, and significant alterations were made to the building. It is currently home to a local company selling flooring materials. The west end of the building still has the pointed nineteenth-century windows from the original hall, although much of the rest of the structure has been transformed.

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Title Deeds to the site of East Port Garage, Newburgh, OnFife Collections Centre, A/AQX/1. Dictionary of Scottish Architects entry for ‘Livingstone Hall’: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=225114 [Accessed 19 November 2021]. Places of Worship in Scotland, ‘Livingstone Hall’: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/10496/name/Livingstone+Hall+Newburgh+Fife [Accessed 18 November 2021].

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