Dundee Sheriff Court

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Dundee Sheriff Court
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The building in 2022
LocationWest Bell Street, Dundee
Coordinates 56°27′44″N2°58′40″W / 56.4622°N 2.9778°W / 56.4622; -2.9778
Built1863
Architect George Angus
Architectural style(s) Neoclassical style
Listed Building – Category B
Official nameDundee Sheriff Court including former screen wall and pavilion block to east and boundary wall, and excluding 1979 Justice Of The Peace Court and 1993-96 additions and alterations, 6 West Bell Street, Dundee
Designated4 February 1965
Reference no.LB25631
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Dundee Sheriff Court is a judicial building on West Bell Street in Dundee in Scotland. The building, which operates as the main courthouse for the area, is a Category B listed building. [1]

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History

The first judicial building in Dundee was the old town house in the High Street which had been designed by William Adam in the neoclassical style and completed in 1734. [2] The design of the town house involved a symmetrical main frontage of seven bays facing onto the High Street. The central section of three bays was slightly projected forward and was pedimented and there was a central clock tower with a spire behind the pediment. The sheriff court was at the east end of the building. [3]

In the early 1830s, court officials decided that they needed a dedicated courthouse: the site they selected was on the south side of West Bell Street. [4] Although the architect, George Angus, completed all the design work in the 1830s, due to lack of finance, only the east pavilion, intended to accommodate a police station, and a prison at the rear of the site, were erected at that time. [5]

In the early 1860s, construction resumed, using the original plans prepared by Angus, under the supervision of the town architect, William Scott. The main courthouse was designed in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in October 1863. [6] [7] [8] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of nine bays facing onto West Bell Street. The central section of three bays featured a two-storey tetrastyle portico formed by four Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment, with the Royal coat of arms in the tympanum. The wings of three bays each were fenestrated with square headed sash windows with architraves and keystones on the ground floor and with round headed windows with architraves and keystones on the first floor. Internally, the principal room was the main courtroom, which featured a coffered ceiling with ornate plasterwork. [1]

A prison at the rear of the site, which had been erected along with the east pavilion in 1833, was demolished in 1927. A new police headquarters was erected on that site in the mid-1970s. [9] A west pavilion, which had been erected along with the main courthouse in 1863, was demolished in 1974. [10] An extensive programme of refurbishment works, carried out at a cost of £3.7 million to a design by Nicoll Russell Studios, was completed in 1996. [11] The building was then officially re-opened by the Princess Royal in April 1997. [12] [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 Historic Environment Scotland. "Dundee Sheriff Court including former screen wall and pavilion block to east and boundary wall, and excluding 1979 Justice Of The Peace Court and 1993-96 additions and alterations, 6 West Bell Street, Dundee (Category B Listed Building) (LB25631)" . Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Dundee High Street, Town House (183041)". Canmore . Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  3. ↑ Thomson, James (1874). The History of Dundee. John Durham & Son. p. 176.
  4. ↑ "Ordnance Survey Six-inch 1st edition, 1843–1882" . Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  5. ↑ King, Brian (2018). Dundee in 50 Buildings. Amberley Publishing. ISBN   978-1445664934.
  6. ↑ Dundee. The Builder. 31 October 1863. p. 776.
  7. ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Dundee, West Bell Street, Sheriff Court Buildings (184396)". Canmore . Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  8. ↑ "Dundee Court House and Bridewell". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  9. ↑ "New force, new home: The building of Dundee's Bell Street police HQ". The Courier. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  10. ↑ "Dundee Sheriff Court". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  11. ↑ "Dundee Sheriff Court". Nicoll Russell Studios. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  12. ↑ "Dundee Sheriff and Justice of the Peace Court" . Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  13. ↑ "Windsor Castle". Court Circular. 12 April 1997. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
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