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Latitude: 55.9311 / 55°55'52"N
Longitude: -3.1608 / 3°9'38"W
OS Eastings: 327570
OS Northings: 671503
OS Grid: NT275715
Mapcode National: GBR 8WP.7B
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.F52Z
Plus Code: 9C7RWRJQ+CM
Entry Name: Cameron Nursery School, 9 Cameron House Avenue, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 9 Cameron House Avenue, Cameron Nursery School
Listing Date: 29 March 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389520
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43142
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389520
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: School building
Circa 1930. T-plan, single storey nursery school and offices. Grey harled walls.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: full-length glazing; small-paned folding doors with frieze of small windows above including 22 panes of stained glass (see below); full-length, projecting, steel-framed, glazed canopy above.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: 2 large bipartite windows to school hall; variety of single and bipartite windows to offices to N.
12-pane and 6-pane, timber, sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; original vents with conical caps.
STAINED GLASS: 22 outstanding secular stained glass panels showing children at play by William Wilson; designed for the school in 1937.
The stained glass was commissioned by the City of Edinburgh as part of a scheme to bring the arts into community life: Tom Whalen?s fountain of the Mother and Child at Prestonfield primary school was also part of this initiative.
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