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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL [Kirkgate] Old Grammar School
Old Grammar School
Old Grammar School
Old Grammar School
Peter Anderson
Mr Turnbull
Mr Grandison
History of Leith Page 317
002 [Situation] E.S.E. [East South East] of Kirkgate.
This name applies to the site of an old building which was occupied as an academy which was of considerable note as a place of learning. This building was destroyed in 1824, to enlarge the burying ground. "the old Grammar school and the Kintore, these ancient buildings were both situated in the immediate vicinity of South Leith Church and on the line of the Kirkgate. The former [i.e. Old Grammar School] stood at the South west corner of the churchyard, and the latter [Kintore] being perforated by an arched passage, formed the entrance which led to the Church from the street just named [Kirkgate]. At what period the Old Grammar School was erected we have not ascertained. It appears to have been a building of considerable antiquity, as we find by the records of South Leith Church, that the high school of Leith was a flourishing establishment as early as the middle of the 17th century." see page 317 History of Leith.

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Parish of South Leith
"Site of" is the proper explanatory term to be written on plan, not "remains of" as there but a small portion of a wall which repaired & forms part of the Churchyard wall & therefore nothing else remaining but the site.

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