Edinburgh Academy. Photographic copy of plan of foundations showing dimensions. Titled: 'New High School No.2' '131 George Street July 4th 1823' Ink, wash

Description Edinburgh Academy. Photographic copy of plan of foundations showing dimensions. Titled: 'New High School No.2' '131 George Street July 4th 1823' Ink, wash

Catalogue Number SC 533183

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of EDD 10/1 P

Scope and Content William Burn's plan of the foundations for The Edinburgh Academy, Henderson Row, Stockbridge, Edinburgh The Edinburgh Academy, a single-storeyed Neo-Grecian building designed by William Burn in 1823, was founded as the new Classical school in the city that would 'arrest the decline of Latin and Greek', and prove a better alternative to the High School. The building is shaped like an inverted 'T'. The stem is formed by a long oval hall, and the cross-bar made up of classrooms, with a suite of small rooms at each end, entered from outside. The Rector's rooms were at the far end of the hall. The High School was not thought, at this time, to be providing a high enough standard of education to allow boys to compete for places at Oxford or Cambridge. The Academy hoped to remedy this by concentrating on Greek, English, Geography and Arithmetic. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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