Dunbar's Hospital

Dunbar's Hospital

ID: QZP40_3289_P308 DESCRIPTION: Dunbar's Hospital was built in 1668 and was given to Inverness by Provost Alexander Dunbar. It is said to be constructed using stone from the dismantled Cromwell's Citadel. The building had several uses in its time. It was the Grammar School until the opening of the Royal Academy in 1792. It was a 3-storey building and at one time there was a Female School and Female Work Society upstairs while fire engines were kept downstairs. During the cholera epidemic of 1849 part of the building was again used as a hospital. This engraving can be found in Invernessiana: Contributions toward A History of the Town and Parish of Inverness, from 1160 to 1599, by Charles Fraser-Mackintosh. It is digitised from the author's own copy, part of his book collection, which is now held at Inverness Library PLACENAME: Inverness OLD COUNTY/PARISH: INVERNESS: Inverness and Bona DATE OF IMAGE: 1875 PERIOD: 1870s SOURCE: Highland Libraries COLLECTION: Fraser Mackintosh Collection (illustrations) Asset ID: 31753 KEYWORDS: