Robert Gordon’s College Aberdeen, School Building, Schoolhill Architecture, Photos, Date, Architect

Robert Gordons Aberdeen : Architecture

College Building on Schoolhill, North East Scotland – Scottish Private Education

Robert Gordon’s Hospital

Dates built: 1731; 1833
Architect: John Smith

Location: north side of city centre, immeditaely east of the art gallery building.

Main frontage to school: photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch

Robert Gordon’s College is a private co-educational day school in the heart of Aberdeen, Scotland. The school caters for pupils from Nursery through to S6.

Entry to Robert Gordon’s: photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch

It originally opened in 1750 as the result of a bequest by Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant who made his fortune from trading with Baltic ports, and was known at foundation as Robert Gordon’s Hospital. This was 19 years after Gordon had died and left his estate in a ‘Deed of Mortification’ to fund the foundation of the Hospital. The fine William Adam-designed building was in fact completed in 1732, but lay empty until 1745 until Gordon’s foundation had sufficient funds to complete the interior. During the Jacobite rising, in 1746 the buildings were commandeered by Hanoverian troops and named Fort Cumberland.

Art Gallery next door: photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch

Aberdeen Art Gallery Redevelopment Study
Award-winning architects Gareth Hoskins Architects of Glasgow have been chosen to create a design study to ensure Aberdeen Art Gallery is fit for purpose for the 21st century.

Location:Schoolhill, Aberdeen, Scotland

Architecture in Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire Architecture Designs – chronological list

Union Square by BDP

image from architect

Buildings close by to Robert Gordon’s Aberdeen:

Bon Accord Centre
1989
Jenkins & Marr

photo © Adrian Welch
Bon Accord Centre