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Latitude: 55.8639 / 55°51'49"N
Longitude: -4.0279 / 4°1'40"W
OS Eastings: 273185
OS Northings: 665270
OS Grid: NS731652
Mapcode National: GBR 009M.ST
Mapcode Global: WH4QB.3W71
Plus Code: 9C7QVX7C+HR
Entry Name: Gartsherrie Academy, Academy Street, Coatbridge
Listing Name: Academy Street, Gartsherrie Academy Primary School Including Playground Walls
Listing Date: 22 April 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 358746
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB23006
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200358746
Location: Coatbridge
County: North Lanarkshire
Town: Coatbridge
Electoral Ward: Coatbridge North
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Re-built in 1870's following fire, but said to incorporate original Gartsherrie Academy built by the Bairds of Gartsherrie 1845. School with classical ornament, mainly Italianate arcaded round-arched lights, symmetrical front to Academy Street. Polished yellow ashlar. Divides into 3 individually-roofed elements, the centre set forward and a storey taller, top storey set back with shallow block pediment topped by cupola and with end stacks; triple-arched entrance at ground; 2-storey outer ranges each with 4 lights each level, series of lights to flanks. Original glazing.
Piended slate roofs. Interior rebuilt by Thomas Martin, 1908. Rock- faced playground walls with decorative cast-iron gates and railings.
Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser also carries reports (21.11.1863;
13.2.1864) of lecture series held in school by Dr E W Pritchard, the last
man to be publicly hanged in Glasgow.
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