Photographic copy of drawing showing Front Elevation of George Heriot's Hospital School-attributed to Alexander Black
SC 426691
Description Photographic copy of drawing showing Front Elevation of George Heriot's Hospital School-attributed to Alexander Black
Catalogue Number SC 426691
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 18108 P
Scope and Content Preparatory School for George Heriot's Hospital School, Old Assembly Close, High Street, Edinburgh George Heriot's Hospital School 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 School, built in Jacobean style by Alexander Black in 1839, has taken many of the architectural details from the 17th-century parent institution in Lauriston Gardens. 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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