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Latitude: 55.0709 / 55°4'15"N
Longitude: -3.6088 / 3°36'31"W
OS Eastings: 297370
OS Northings: 576338
OS Grid: NX973763
Mapcode National: GBR 397T.H1
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.JSRZ
Plus Code: 9C7R39CR+8F
Entry Name: St John's School, Rae Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: Rae Street, Former St John's School
Listing Date: 21 August 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362934
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26326
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, Rae Street, St John's School
ID on this website: 200362934
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1885. School with Gothic detailing, now used as offices.
2 storeys with railed basement, 3 bays with mullioned and
transomed windows, inner bay with perpendicular traceried
ground floor window and flanked by crenellated tall octagonal
turrets; outer buttresses. Bull-faced red ashlar with
polished dressings. Outer ground floor windows with flat
ogee heads; depressed-arched 1st floor windows with
shallow-gabled heads above main eaves level. String between
floors stepped as hood-mould over central window. Slate roof.
Low ranges to rear.
Built as Episcopal School.
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