Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Skye, Portree, Bank Street, Tourist Office (Feisean Nan Gaidheal)
Jail (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Portree, Bank Street, Tourist Office (Feisean Nan Gaidheal)
Classification Jail (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Portree Prison; The Old Jail
Canmore ID 99359
Site Number NG44SE 83
NGR NG 48331 43452
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/99359
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Bank Street Former Jail (now office of Feisean nan Gaidheal), J. Gillespie Graham, 1800 Built for Lord Macdonald for £500, this is the solitary three-bay house visible in Daniell's print. It is now flanked by Peddie & Kinnear's Free Church (originally UP), 1860, and the Skye Gathering Hall, 1879, a brooding, crowstepped hall, revamped by James Mackenzie, c.1900.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2007. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NG44NE 34 Grid Ref.: NG48331 43452
Source: O/S Map 1:2500, 1966.
Converted building (from old jailhouse to Tourist Info Centre) facing towards southern end of Somerled Square where it meets Bridge Road.
ARCHITECT: James Gillespie Graham
REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE:
Dispute concerning the adequacy of Portree Jail.
Letter from John M Murray.
He enclosed a letter from Mr Gillespie concerning the Jail. The plan of it is in The Book of Drawings in Mr Dick's custody and if the Sheriff looks at it he will be able to judge for himself, the jail's adequacy.
1802 GD 221/15/1
The condition of the Jail.
The Sheriff-Substitute's report.
1802 GD 221/68/22
Expense of building a new Jail 1800 - 1802.
Note that the cost amounted to 511.12.5 (pounds)
Account of Expenditure by Lord Macdonald on Public Buildings 1800 - 1814.
Rendered by James Gillespie, Architect.
1815 GD 221/28/2
Upkeep of the new Jail. Memo suggest the setting up of a fund by the County.
1801 GD 221/23/1
