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Latitude: 55.9887 / 55°59'19"N
Longitude: -4.5856 / 4°35'8"W
OS Eastings: 238809
OS Northings: 680316
OS Grid: NS388803
Mapcode National: GBR 0L.VMTX
Mapcode Global: WH3NB.JQMW
Plus Code: 9C7QXCQ7+FQ
Entry Name: Vale Of Leven Academy, Middleton Street, Alexandria
Listing Name: Alexandria, Middleton Street, Christie Park Primary School with Gatepiers and Boundary Wall and Railings
Listing Date: 24 May 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338259
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6610
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200338259
Location: Bonhill
County: West Dunbartonshire
Electoral Ward: Leven
Parish: Bonhill
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: School building
1884, extended 1902. Substantial, 2-storey and 2-storey and mezzanine, near-symmetrical, rectangular-plan school with classical detailing. Red sandstone. Base course, lintel and cill courses, architraved windows to principal elevation, bracketted eaves.
E (ENTRANCE/MIDDLETON STREET) ELEVATION: taller 2-storey and mezzanine, 5-bay block slightly advanced at centre, flanked by 3-bay wings.
ENTRANCE BLOCK: 3 windows to centre at ground, flanked by corniced doorways, 2-leaf doors. 5 regular windows to mezzanine above, including architraved windows to outer bays with keystones. Slightly advanced and corbelled, round-arched tripartite window to centre at 1st floor with pilaster mullions. Architraved and corniced, round-arched windows at ground to flanking wings. Shouldered and architrave to 1st floor windows.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 15 bays, window to each bay with dorway to 6th bay from right.
N ELEVTION: 11 bays with taller 4-bay block to outer right.
6-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piend and platform slate roof; cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1995.
HALL: rectangular-plan, red sandstone hall to N, linked by covered walkway to main block of school. Round-arched window to E, 5-bay side elevation.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: red sandstone ruibble, semicircular coping. Square red sandstone piers, moulded caps.
The school was originally known as Alexandria North School, it was enlarged in 1902 and it became the first Vale of Leven Academy Secondary School. The school is an early example of a developed Board school and the extension an example of the changes resulting from the implementation of the legislation introducing secondary schools.
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