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From the Apollo archives – Gavin Stamp on the sorry saga of Edinburgh's Royal High School

Edinburgh City Council recently announced plans to reconsider the future use of Thomas Hamilton’s Royal High School on Calton Hill, ending a deal with developers who had pledged in 2009 to find a sustainable purpose for the building. The High School, a masterpiece of the Scottish Greek Revival, has long lain empty; in 2015 plans to transform it into a luxury hotel were widely condemned by heritage groups and the public, and last year
the Scottish Government rejected a revised proposal.
The council’s decision has been welcomed by the Royal High School Preservation Trust, which since 2015 has campaigned for the building to become a new home for St Mary’s Music School. The trust is likely to make a bid to take over the site, while the hotel developers have yet to confirm whether they will submit a further proposal. In the April 2015 issue of Apollo, Gavin Stamp discussed the significance of Hamilton’s building and lamented that it might become a hotel; an adapte ....

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Edinburgh's old Royal High School building risks the same fate as A-listed St Peter's Seminary – John McLellan

Edinburgh s old Royal High School building risks the same fate as A-listed St Peter s Seminary – John McLellan
Nestling in the Argyllshire countryside near Cardross is one of Scotland’s architectural gems, the country’s best post-war building, according to Prospect architectural magazine, while Historic Environment Scotland describes it as “one of the finest modern buildings”.
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The former Royal High School on Calton Hill has been lying largely empty for more than half a century. (Picture: Steven Scott Taylor) ....

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