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Detail of wall plaque inscribed "George Heriot's Hospital School 1839" above East doorway
B 4930
Description Detail of wall plaque inscribed "George Heriot's Hospital School 1839" above East doorway
Date 28/1/1988
Catalogue Number B 4930
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 426690
Scope and Content Inscription panel from the Preparatory School for George Heriot's Hospital School, Old Assembly Close, High Street, Edinburgh George Heriot's Hospital School in Lauriston Gardens was founded in 1624 from part of the vast fortune left by George Heriot, goldsmith to James VI. Additional money from his estate funded an offshoot of the school in Old Assembly Close in 1839. The preparatory school for George Heriot's, in Jacobean style by Alexander Black in 1839, has taken many architectural details from the 17th-century parent school. The inscription panel framed with strapwork is over the original main door at the rear. George Heriot was goldsmith to Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI. In 1603, he moved with the Court to London to become 'His Majesty's Jeweller'. He left most of his fortune to found a school for the 'poor faitherless bairns o' Edinburgh'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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