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Publication Account
Date 1977
Event ID 1018429
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018429
Dunbar's Hospital, a late seventeenth-century structure located in Church Street, has had many functions. Funded originally by Provost Alexander Dunbar, it was handed over to the Kirk Session in 1687 who used it as the burgh school. It had also served as a poorhouse and weighhouse.
Information from ‘Historic Inverness: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1977).
