Discovering Urban School Buildings in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
Discovering Urban School Buildings in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
Join us for a talk on the early urban school buildings of Scotland
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Online & in-person at Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL
Cost: £6 / £2 for students
Booking: In-person and online tickets can be purchased here on Eventbrite
In this final talk in our 2022–23 Winter Lecture Series, Dr Diane Watters examines three grammar school case studies – St Andrews, Dunfermline and Edinburgh – highlighting the development of these medieval school buildings up to c.1600. Documentary, visual and built evidence is extremely rare, but she will attempt to counter the orthodoxy that there were only a few permanent town school buildings in Scotland prior to the fifteenth century.
Download the full programme of lectures here
image: c. 1846 photograph (‘by Hill’) of the ‘Common School and Great Hall’ at St. Salvator’s prior to demolition © St Andrews Preservation Trust
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