Basic Site Details

Alternative Names

The following alternative names are associated with this building/design:
	Name	Current name?	Notes
	Kirkcaldy High School	Yes
	New High School
	Old High School

Building Type Classification

The building is classified under the following categories:
	Classification	Original classification?	Notes
	School

Street Addresses

The following street addresses are associated with this building:
	Address	Main entrance?	Notes
	Sang Road	Yes
	St Brycedale Avenue	Yes

Events

The following date-based events are associated with this building:
	From	To	Event type	Notes
	1843			Original building
	1892	1896		Extensive additions and alterations (rebuilding)
	1898		Design exhibited	Williamson design exhibited for addition

People

Design and Construction

The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column.
	Name	Role	Partnership Group	From	To	Notes
	James Ross Gillespie		A	1892	1896	Extensive additions and alterations (rebuilding)
	James Scott		A	1892	1896	Extensive additions and alterations (rebuilding)
	Gillespie & Scott		A	1895	1896	Extensive additions and alterations (rebuilding)
	William Williamson			1898		Addition

Clients

The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design:
	Name	Notes
	School Board of Kirkcaldy

Related Buildings, Structures and Designs

Child Structures

This structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details):
	Building Name	Notes
	Kirkcaldy High School, Technical and Elementary Schools	Academy Architecture shows good scheme linked to existing High School, demolished in 1960 - for which see separate entry under Kirkcaldy Burgh School. Building of this school was largely funded from the local Miners' Welfare Institute by a donation of £40,000 - for the provision of evening classes. NB It is unclear what the competition plans by Gillespie & Scott of 1905 and of 1930 are exactly as the dates do not seem to fit other information. NEW TECHNICAL AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, KIRKCALDY. The accompanying drawing shows the new Technical and Elementary Schools at Kirkcaldy, N B by Mr. William Williamson, architect, of that town, which were accepted in open competition. To the right is the existing High School, the technical department occupying the ground to the left, with the Elementary School (which is now completed) behind. A janitor's house is shown in the foreground. The site is an ideal one, being surrounded by streets on the four sides: the main frontages face St. Brycedale Avenue, one of the most important streets in the town. The Technical School is arranged on three floors - viz., the semi-basement, ground and first floors. On the basement floor are provided carpentry and mechanical workshops, laundry and cookery rooms, general stores, lavatories, etc, and accommodation is also found here for the heating apparatus. Access to the basement floor is obtained by means of two broad flights of steps direct from main entrance, and also by a staircase at east end of corridor communicating with the connecting corridor between the ground floor of technical and high school. The ground floor is reached by a broad flight of steps from the principal entrance, and immediately to the right and left are cloakrooms. On this floor are provided physical laboratory, apparatus room, dark room, workshop laboratory, machine and building construction drawing-rooms, with their store, general masters' room, and classroom. On the upper floor are provided the necessary cloakrooms, chemical laboratory, balance room, chemical store and preparation room, art rooms, modelling rooms, design room, art stores, and art master's private room. [Building News 9 September 1904 p359] NB Technical School was not built to Williamson's design. It was later built to the design of Walter Alison.

References

Bibliographic References

The following books contain references to this building:
	Author(s)	Date	Title	Part	Publisher	Notes
	Academy Architecture	1898		part 1		pp54, 62 (Accepted design by William Williamson)
	Groome, Francis H	1883	Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland
	Groome, Francis H	1904
	RSA	1898				555
	Who's Who in Architecture	1914				Entry for Williamson

Periodical References

The following periodicals contain references to this building:
	Periodical Name	Date	Edition	Publisher	Notes
	Architect	14 April 1893	XLIX		Supplement, p 15
	Architect	27 April 1894	LI		Supplement, p 7
	British Architect	1893	XLV		p 42
	Builder	1893	LXX		p 99

Archive References

The following archives hold material relating to this building:
	Source	Archive name	Source catalogue no.	Notes
	National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS	Gillespie & Scott List		Nos 111 and 112
	RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum	RIBA Nomination Papers		William Williamson: F v16 p29 no1031 (microfilm reel 11)
	Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland	Canmore	94282
	St Andrews University Library	James Gillespie and Scott Archive		Bundles 111-112