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MHG15872 - Dunbar's Hospital, 88 Church Street, Inverness

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NH64NE0014
JHooper, 4/2/2002
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NH64NE 14 6653 4550.

(NH 66534550) Dunbar's Hospital in Church Street was bequeathed to the town as a hospital in 1668. It was used as a Grammar School till the opening of the Royal Academy in 1792. It was built with stones from Cromwells' Fort.
T Wallace 1917.

An armorial panel on the building contains Provost Dunbar's coat of arms and the date '1676' The date inscribed above two of the upper windows is 1668.
C Fraser-Mackintosh 1913.

Dunbar's Hospital is in good condition and in use as dwellings and a hall. The armorial panel above the door is a replica of the original which is now in the Museum, Inverness.
Visited by OS (W D J) 1 April 1960.

Built 1668.
Architect: W L Carruthers c.1900 - alterations

NRMS LIBRARY
"Scottish Country Life" June 1928 photograph

Inv/Culloden & Ardersier Local Plan, April 1994: P106/5.7.6. Listed Buildings. POLICY - 2.5.13 will apply.
J Aitken : 23/05/01.

Martin Briscoe has submitted photographs of this site to the Highland HER Flickr group. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6651 4549 (5m by 6m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH64NE
Civil Parish	INVERNESS AND BONA
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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