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Publication Account
Date 1988
Event ID 1018282
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018282
In the late 16th-century building renewal after the English invasions and Reformation crisis, a new grammar school was built in 1589 on the south-east corner of The Vault. A two-storeyed building with an outside staircase, it remained upstanding until demolished in 1871 when the Town House was extended.3 In 1789 the grammar school had been transferred to School Wynd, where it was housed with the English School founded at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1785 Dundee Academy was founded and used as its premises the old hospital outwith the Nethergate Port. All three schools united in 1829 as the Dundee Public Seminaries, and were rehoused in 1834 in the present building, the name being changed by royal charter in 1859 to the High School of Dundee.4
NOTES
3. Maxwell, Dundee (1891), 90.
4. The High School of Dundee, (anon) (Dundee 1964).
Information from ‘Historic Dundee: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1988).
