Architecture Notes

Event ID 816688

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/816688

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EXTERNAL REFERENCES:

Stirling Academy, designed by J W & J Hay, Architects of Liverpool - 1854-6

Contract of #1,000. Stone from Bannockburn Quarries. Buildings grouped around a quadrangle comprising six school-rooms, alarge examination hall, with laboratory and retiring rooms, museum, and janitor's residence over entrance gate.

The Building Chronicle, 1855

SRO

Conversion of Old [Stirling] Academy into a place for stores and offices for the militia.

Proposed purchase by the County from the Town for this purpose.

Letter from John Murray [of Polmaise] to John Murray, his son.

1855 GD 189/2/1007

NMRS REFERENCE:

Architect: Messrs Hay Liverpool 1852. Sculpture executed by A H Handyside Ritchie.

James M Maclaren, London (competition design) 1886-1889