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Latitude: 55.5454 / 55°32'43"N
Longitude: -4.6456 / 4°38'44"W
OS Eastings: 233180
OS Northings: 631141
OS Grid: NS331311
Mapcode National: GBR 39.RLZ7
Mapcode Global: WH2P9.MW06
Plus Code: 9C7QG9W3+4P
Entry Name: Gatepiers, Marr College, Dundonald Road, Troon
Listing Name: Dundonald Road, Four Gatepiers at Entrance to Marr College
Listing Date: 10 August 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388567
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42118
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200388567
Location: Troon
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Troon
Electoral Ward: Troon
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
John Arthur, circa 1919. 4 square-plan piers flanking vehicular and pedestrian entrance to Marr College. Coursed sandstone ashlar. Raised plinths; stepped panels centred in facets; "MC" embossed on inner piers; key-pattern banding to square-plan caps. Gates missing; sinuous dwarf linking walls missing.
B Group with Marr College, the entrance lodge and former janitor's house (see separate list entries). Marr College, a grant-aided co-educational school was established by an Educational Trust founded and funded at the bequest of Charles Kerr Marr (1855 - 1919). A coal contractor by trade, Marr amassed a fortune whilst in London during the 1st World War. Following his death, a substantial amount of this wealth was left to a Trust whose task it was to bring about the advancement of education in Troon. Hence, the establishment of scholarships and prizes for pupils resident in the area and the building of Marr College, opened in 1935. Trained with John Burnet, John Mercer and John A Campbell (Ayr based architects), this vast project was Arthur's most significant architectural achievement. Work did not begin on the school until the late 1920s and was completed by A G McNaughtan following Arthur?s death.
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