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Latitude: 55.9446 / 55°56'40"N
Longitude: -4.5662 / 4°33'58"W
OS Eastings: 239835
OS Northings: 675364
OS Grid: NS398753
Mapcode National: GBR 0M.YD4Z
Mapcode Global: WH3NJ.TVS6
Plus Code: 9C7QWCVM+RG
Entry Name: Former Gateway, Dumbarton Old Prison, Maclean Place, Dumbarton
Listing Name: Maclean Place Former Prison Gateway Including Adjacent Walls, Windows and Carved Stone
Listing Date: 31 January 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361023
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24906
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumbarton, Maclean Place, Dumbarton Old Prison, Former Gateway
ID on this website: 200361023
Location: Dumbarton
County: West Dunbartonshire
Town: Dumbarton
Electoral Ward: Dumbarton
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
James Gillespie & Robert Scott, architects. Foundation stone
for County Buildings and jail laid 19.7.1824. Jail demolished
1973, leaving only gateway, and some stone fragments built
into nearby rubble walls. Gateway built of polished ashlar,
is in original position; iron-studded oak door recessed in
round-headed opening; banded at impost level, moulded arch
above, frieze and cornice with Dumbarton Burgh arms above in
parapet. 2 pairs of reset windows and strapwork decoration.
Used as a prison until 1883, and then as a County Council
store until becoming derelict when new County Buildings were
opened in 1965.
James Gillespie married a Graham heiress and subsequently
changed his name to James Gillespie Graham, by which name he
is better known.
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