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Latitude: 55.0724 / 55°4'20"N
Longitude: -3.6093 / 3°36'33"W
OS Eastings: 297342
OS Northings: 576507
OS Grid: NX973765
Mapcode National: GBR 397S.DH
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.JRJT
Plus Code: 9C7R39CR+X7
Entry Name: Townhead Dining Centre, Academy Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: Academy Street, Townhead Dining Centre
Listing Date: 6 March 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362561
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26079
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, Academy Street, Townhead Dining Centre
ID on this website: 200362561
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
James Barbour, 1867-8, as UP church; converted to academy
dining hall circa 1960. Early decorated. Built of
bull-faced red coursers with polished dressings,
contrasting grey banding. Cruciform-plan with twin-gabled
transepts, 2 stages of uncompleted square tower in NW
re-entrant angle, curved, conical-roofed stair turret
adjoins at N. Church hall transversely set at E gable.
Tall 3-light window in main W gable, entrances now in
modern low bull-faced ashlar additions clasping angles of
latter. Transepts have circular lights in gable-heads;
axial roof ventilator; roofed with graded slates.
Interior gutted. Enclosing wall much altered.
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