Dumfries Sheriff Court

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Dumfries Sheriff Court
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The building in 2008
LocationBuccleuch Street, Dumfries
Coordinates 55°04′10″N3°36′54″W / 55.0695°N 3.6149°W / 55.0695; -3.6149
Built1866
Architect David Rhind
Architectural style(s) Scottish baronial style
Listed Building – Category B
Official nameDumfries Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court, including entrance piers and railings, and excluding 1991–1994 extension to southeast, 40 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries
Designated6 March 1981
Reference no.LB26108
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Dumfries Sheriff Court is a judicial building on Buccleuch Street in Dumfries in Scotland. The building, which still operates as the local courthouse, is a Category B listed building. [1]

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History

The first judicial building in the town was the old courthouse on the north side of Buccleuch Street which was originally commissioned as a chapel by the theologian, Robert Haldane, in 1799. [2] It was remodelled at a cost of around £4,000, [3] to a design by a Mr Gillespie in the neoclassical style for use as a courthouse in 1814. [4] [5] In the mid-19th century, court officials decided to commission a purpose-built courthouse. The site they selected was on the south side of Buccleuch Street. [6]

The new building was designed by David Rhind in the Scottish baronial style, built in red sandstone from Locharbriggs Quarry and was officially opened in time for the spring assizes on 17 April 1866. [7] [8] The original design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of four bays facing onto Buccleuch Street. The third bay on the left featured a round headed entrance with a hood mould ending in moulded ropes; there was a corbeled turret with a conical roof above. The first two bays and the right-hand bay were fenestrated with sash windows on all three floors with the second floor windows being smaller that the others. The first two bays were surmounted by gables, the right hand bay was surmounted by a balustrade and there were bartizans with conical roofs at both corners of the building. Internally, the principal room was the main courtroom which featured a coffered ceiling. [1]

A building designed as a post office by Walter Wood Robertson in the Jacobean style was erected on an adjacent site to the northeast of the courthouse in 1887 and later integrated into the complex. [9] Some internal alterations were made in the early 1990s. [1]

In November 1991, the building was the venue for the issue of a warrant for the arrest of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. [10] Megrahi was later convicted, by special court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, of 270 counts of murder but Fhimah was acquitted. [11] The building remains the venue for hearings of the Dumfries Sheriff Court. [12]

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References

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  2. ↑ Groome, Francis H. (1885). "Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical". Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack.
  3. ↑ Macdairmid, John (1832). Picture of Dumfries and its environs. John Gellatly. p. 96.
  4. ↑ "Transactions and Journal of Proceedings 1908-1909" (PDF). Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 1910. p. 89.
  5. ↑ "Municipal Chambers in Buccleuch Street". Dumfries and Galloway Council. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  6. ↑ "Ordnance Survey Six-inch 1st edition, 1843–1882" . Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  7. ↑ M'Dowall, William (1873). History of the Burgh of Dumfries With Notices of Nithsdale, Annandale, and the Western Border. Adam and Charles Black. p. 744.
  8. ↑ "Dumfries Sheriff Court". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  9. ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Post Office, 42, 44 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries (Category B Listed Building) (LB26109)" . Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  10. ↑ Oyeniyi, Bukola A. (2019). The History of Libya. ABC-CLIO. p. 160. ISBN   978-1440856075.
  11. ↑ "Pan Am 103 – Lockerbie verdict". Terrorismcentral.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
  12. ↑ "Dumfries Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court". Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
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