Description

James H Langlands, W G Lamond assisting, 1905-6. School
with Art Nouveau details, snecked bull-nosed rubble with
ashlar dressings. 4-storey stepped-frontage with taller
stair tower to street, consoled semi-circular hood at door
now window, mullioned windows 2 and 4-lights, curvilinear
parapets to tower and centre bay. 2-storey, 6-bay classroom
block with large arched windows, original mullioned and
transomed glazing, piended roof with central louvred
ventilator having broad eaves and flat dome. Extension by Wm
Friskin 1933, 2-storey polished ashlar, 5 bays between splayed
pilaster buttresses rising from plinth.
Left 3-bays have 4 windows to each bay between V-fronted
sectioned mullions, right 2 have small 3-high windows in each
floor. Polished ashlar face to original stair tower.
INTERIOR: plainly tiled square stairwell. Corridor to
classrooms has large arched windows, as at W elevation,
with 1933 concrete and brick extension to E. Rear of 1933
block open to yard at ground floor, with 1st floor corridor
cantilevered out on concrete floor.
Wrought iron Art Nouveau railings in re-entrant of original
block. Steel railings to playground, and reinstated to Blackness
Road 2002.

Statement of Interest

St Joseph's RC Infant and Girls' school was enlarged in 1933 when the girls moved to Bellfield Street and the boys moved from Daniel Street to Blackness Road. Became part of Dundee College, Abertay University, in the 1990s. It opened under its present Title in 2002, in a ceremony led by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, deputy ruler of Dubai on 6 May.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808393

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