Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1017707

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Prior to 1739, the schoolhouse of the burgh stood in the churchyard. In that year the town council deciding that 'the schoolroom formerly built by the burgh in the churchyard is now so much out of repair that it is become quite uninhabitable' resolved to remove the material from the structure and build a new schoolhouse in the burgh's 'common loaning' (Port Street) 'in the cheapest and most convenient manner' (Steel, 1933, 82).

Information from ‘Historic Annan: The Archaeological Implications of Development’, (1981).