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Latitude: 57.6099 / 57°36'35"N
Longitude: -3.6123 / 3°36'44"W
OS Eastings: 303763
OS Northings: 858913
OS Grid: NJ037589
Mapcode National: GBR K8GM.003
Mapcode Global: WH5H4.HZ2K
Plus Code: 9C9RJ95Q+X3
Entry Name: Falconer Museum, Tolbooth Street, Forres
Listing Name: Tolbooth Street, Falconer Museum
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 373067
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31747
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Forres, Tolbooth Street, Falconer Museum
ID on this website: 200373067
Location: Forres
County: Moray
Town: Forres
Electoral Ward: Forres
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure Museum building
A and W Reid, 1868-70. Italian Renaissance. 2 storeys, 3-bay
entrance to N, 6-bay elevation to Tolbooth Street. Finely
stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, rubble flanks
to S and E. Vitruvian scroll between ground and 1st floors,
rosettes in frieze, cornice, die parapet with terminal
finials to both facades.
N FACADE: shallow advanced centre bay with paved Roman Doric
columned portico; pilastered and shafted round-arched
tripartite above, with broad outer pilaster strips supporting
frieze inscribed "Falconer Museum" and pediment enclosing
portrait bust and crowning anthemion. Outer bays with round-
arched pilastered windows in each floor, shell decoration and portrait-mask keystone at ground, 1st floor windows recessed
in panels.
W ELEVATION: similar details, 2 centre bays advanced with
panelled parapet; all 1st floor windows bipartite. Piended
slate roof.
The Museum was founded by bequests by Alexander Falconer in
1856, and by his brother, Dr Hugh Falconer. W facade
commemorate's (left to right) Hugh Miller, Sir Walter Scott,
Sir Davie Brewster, Edmund Forbes, Dr John Malcolmson and
James Watt.
Former Item 133 (1983 Revised List)
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