The Building

The passage of time worked to the benefit of the School, since the intervening years saw the original bequest, shrewdly invested, more than double in size to a figure approaching half a million pounds, at that time a huge sum of money. This enabled the architect, David Bryce, to pursue a grandiose design, reflected in the structure we see today. Under the influence of a recent visit to the Loire valley, and with the Scottish baronial style also clearly in mind, Bryce created what a modern architectural expert has praised as "undeniably one of Scotland's greatest buildings".