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Moray College Of Further Education, Gordon Street, Elgin

A Category B Listed Building in Elgin, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6459 / 57°38'45"N

Longitude: -3.3175 / 3°19'2"W

OS Eastings: 321458

OS Northings: 862535

OS Grid: NJ214625

Mapcode National: GBR L85J.31J

Mapcode Global: WH6JF.02JY

Plus Code: 9C9RJMWM+82

Entry Name: Moray College Of Further Education, Gordon Street, Elgin

Listing Name: Gordon Street, Victoria School of Science and Art, and Gate Piers

Listing Date: 26 January 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371812

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30706

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371812

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City South

Traditional County: Morayshire

Tagged with: School building

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Description

George Sutherland, 1890. Richardsonian Romanesque.
Single storey L-plan with long 4-bay gabled frontage to
Gordon Street; arched porch and tall 2-stage tower with
pyramidal slated roof at re-entrant angle. Bullfaced rubble;
some Romanesque detailing. Tower with triple round-arched
windows at base; elongated paired round-arched lancets
with angle shafts and angle gargoyles; large porch to SE
with 2 semi-circular headed arched entrances supported on
piers with short angle shafts with stiff leafed capitals.
Advanced S facing bay to W of tower with large round-arched
window with cast-iron tracery as in E gable.
Cable moulding to eaves course; ornate skews with kneelers,
stone finials; decorative glazing; hoodmoulds; battered
base course; slate roof.
Octagonal gate piers; ashlar with pyramidal copes.

Statement of Interest

Corner site with Moray Street. Built as Elgin's Queen

Victoria Jubilee Memorial.

Former Item 24 (1981 Revised List).

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