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Latitude: 57.1466 / 57°8'47"N
Longitude: -2.1146 / 2°6'52"W
OS Eastings: 393166
OS Northings: 806200
OS Grid: NJ931062
Mapcode National: GBR S94.8H
Mapcode Global: WH9QQ.HM9P
Plus Code: 9C9V4VWP+M5
Entry Name: Statue Of Lord Byron, Grammar School, Skene Street, Aberdeen
Listing Name: Skene Street and Esslemont Avenue, Aberdeen Grammar School, Lord Byron Statue
Listing Date: 12 January 1967
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 354446
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB20003
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Aberdeen, Skene Street, Grammar School, Statue Of Lord Byron
ID on this website: 200354446
Location: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeen
Town: Aberdeen
Electoral Ward: Midstocket/Rosemount
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Statue
Pittendreigh MacGillivray, 1914, executed by Alexander J. Leslie 1920. Square-plan granite plinth inscribed "BYRON" surmounted by bronze statue of Lord Byron, centred to SE of Aberdeen Grammar School.
B-Group with Aberdeen Grammar School, Language Block, French School, Lodge, Gates, Gatepiers and Boundary Walls. According to Groome Aberdeen Grammar School, though not the building which exists today, can be traced back as far as 1262, when it attracted "advanced pupils from the best primary schools, and has a close connection...with the university." (Groome p 11). The previous school, which Lord Byron attended, was built in 1757, on Schoolhill near the entrance to Gordon's College (see separate listing). The present Grammar School (see separate listing) was designed by James Matthews in 1861-1863. The statue commemorating one of the school's most famous pupils stands in the centre of the grounds, and is considered by Chapman and Riley as one of most Aberdeen's important statues.
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