Stirling, Academy Road, High School
Hotel (20th Century), School (17th Century)
Site Name Stirling, Academy Road, High School
Classification Hotel (20th Century), School (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Highland Hotel; Stirling Academy
Canmore ID 205280
Site Number NS79SE 261
NGR NS 79344 93508
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/205280
![Detail of commemorative plaque with inscription "Hamilton Tennent. Lieutenant-Colonel, H.E.I.C.S. Suggested and Generously Aided the Erection of the Earlier Portion of This Building. 1854.[...]"](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/SC02496739.jpg)
![Detail of commemorative plaque with inscription "John Ramsay of Kildalton. In Youth a Pupil. In After Life a Benefactor of This School.[...]"](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/SC01261560.jpg)
![Detail of commemorative plaque with inscription "Hamilton Tennent. Lieutenant-Colonel, H.E.I.C.S. Suggested and Generously Aided the Erection of the Earlier Portion of This Building. 1854.[...]"](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/SC01261558.jpg)
![Detail of commemorative plaque with inscription "John Ramsay of Kildalton. In Youth a Pupil. In After Life a Benefactor of This School.[...]"](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/SC02496741.jpg)
![Detail of commemorative plaque with inscription "Hamilton Tennent. Lieutenant-Colonel, H.E.I.C.S. Suggested and Generously Aided the Erection of the Earlier Portion of This Building. 1854.[...]"](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/s/SC02496739.jpg)
![Detail of commemorative plaque with inscription "John Ramsay of Kildalton. In Youth a Pupil. In After Life a Benefactor of This School.[...]"](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/s/SC01261560.jpg)
![Detail of commemorative plaque with inscription "Hamilton Tennent. Lieutenant-Colonel, H.E.I.C.S. Suggested and Generously Aided the Erection of the Earlier Portion of This Building. 1854.[...]"](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/s/SC01261558.jpg)
![Detail of commemorative plaque with inscription "John Ramsay of Kildalton. In Youth a Pupil. In After Life a Benefactor of This School.[...]"](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/s/SC02496741.jpg)
- Council Stirling
- Parish Stirling
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS79SE 261 79344 93508
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
Publication Account (1978)
The Grammar School was a one-storey building on Castle Hill until 1635 when it was rebuilt, enlarged and covered with 'sclaitt' (Hutchison, 1904, 18). It was apparently reconstructed ln 1788, a plain building of three storeys and a garret (RCAHM, 1963, 284) After the erection of the High School in 1854, the old Grammar School .building was turned over for military use (RCAHM, 1963, 284).
Information from Scottish Burgh Survey, ‘Historic Stirling: The Archaeological Implications of Development’, (1978).
