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Latitude: 56.46 / 56°27'36"N
Longitude: -2.9884 / 2°59'18"W
OS Eastings: 339186
OS Northings: 730202
OS Grid: NO391302
Mapcode National: GBR Z7W.KY
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.2W6K
Plus Code: 9C8VF266+2J
Entry Name: St Joseph's R. C. Boy's School, 126 Blackness Road, 124A, Dundee
Listing Name: 124, 126 Blackness Road, Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Former St Joseph's School)
Listing Date: 30 June 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361605
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25384
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, 124a, 126 Blackness Road, St Joseph's R. C. Boy's School
ID on this website: 200361605
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: West End
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: School building
James H Langlands, W G Lamond assisting, 1905-6. School
with Art Nouveau details, snecked bull-nosed rubble with
ashlar dressings. 4-storey stepped-frontage with taller
stair tower to street, consoled semi-circular hood at door
now window, mullioned windows 2 and 4-lights, curvilinear
parapets to tower and centre bay. 2-storey, 6-bay classroom
block with large arched windows, original mullioned and
transomed glazing, piended roof with central louvred
ventilator having broad eaves and flat dome. Extension by Wm
Friskin 1933, 2-storey polished ashlar, 5 bays between splayed
pilaster buttresses rising from plinth.
Left 3-bays have 4 windows to each bay between V-fronted
sectioned mullions, right 2 have small 3-high windows in each
floor. Polished ashlar face to original stair tower.
INTERIOR: plainly tiled square stairwell. Corridor to
classrooms has large arched windows, as at W elevation,
with 1933 concrete and brick extension to E. Rear of 1933
block open to yard at ground floor, with 1st floor corridor
cantilevered out on concrete floor.
Wrought iron Art Nouveau railings in re-entrant of original
block. Steel railings to playground, and reinstated to Blackness
Road 2002.
St Joseph's RC Infant and Girls' school was enlarged in 1933 when the girls moved to Bellfield Street and the boys moved from Daniel Street to Blackness Road. Became part of Dundee College, Abertay University, in the 1990s. It opened under its present Title in 2002, in a ceremony led by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, deputy ruler of Dubai on 6 May.
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