Oban Sheriff Court

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Oban Sheriff Court
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The building in 2016
LocationAlbany Street, Oban
Coordinates 56°24′41″N5°28′24″W / 56.4113°N 5.4734°W / 56.4113; -5.4734
Built1889
ArchitectDavid MacKintosh
Architectural style(s) Italianate style
Listed Building – Category B
Official nameOban Sheriff Court and Justice Of The Peace Court, Albany Street, Oban
Designated12 October 1995
Reference no.LB38801
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Shown in Argyll and Bute

Oban Sheriff Court is a judicial building on Albany Street in Oban in Scotland. The building, which remains in use as a courthouse, is a Category B listed building. [1]

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History

The current building was intended to replace an earlier courthouse and prison in Argyll Square, which had been designed by David Rhind and completed in 1856. [2] [3] In the 1880s the Argyll Commissioners of Supply decided to procure a more substantial courthouse for the county. The site they selected was on the southeast side of Albany Street. [4]

The building was designed by David MacKintosh in the Italianate style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1889. [5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Albany Street. The central bay featured a square-headed doorway flanked by pilasters and brackets supporting a balcony with urns and a balustraded front. The other bays on the ground floor, which was rusticated, were fenestrated by square headed sash windows, while the bays on the first floor were fenestrated by round-headed windows with archivolts. The first floor windows were separated by pilasters with imposts supporting the archivolts. At roof level there was a modillioned cornice and a parapet. Internally, the principal area was the main courtroom on the first floor extending right across the main frontage. The courtroom featured finely carved palmettes on the wooden bench, the jury box and the dock. [6]

Notable cases which appeared in front of the court included the trial and conviction of the Scotland international rugby union player, John MacCallum, who was a conscientious objector during the First World War. He was fined £2 for being absent without leave. [7] In March 1953, the court was the venue for the inquest into the deaths of two crew members from the Islay lifeboat, who died from carbon monoxide poisoning during an attempt to save the lives of 15 fishermen on the fishing trawler Michael Griffiths. The whole crew of the Michael Griffiths were also died. [8]

The building was refurbished in 1990 but in such a way that its original internal finishings were largely retained. [1] More recently, the building was the venue for the claim by a retired lawyer, Ian Hamilton, against Royal Bank of Scotland for failure to disclose its true financial position prior to is collapse in 2008. Hamilton abandoned the case when the sheriff ruled that the case was too complex to proceed without going before a higher court. [9] [10] [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 Historic Environment Scotland. "Oban Sheriff Court and Justice Of The Peace Court, Albany Street, Oban (Category B Listed Building) (LB38801)" . Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "Oban Sheriff Courthouse". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Archived from the original on 21 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Oban, Argyll Square, Court House And Jail (156695)". Canmore . Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  4. ↑ "Ordnance Survey Six-inch 1st edition, 1843–1882" . Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  5. ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Oban, Albany Street, Sheriff Courthouse (233807)". Canmore . Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  6. ↑ Robson, Peter; Rodger, Johnny (2017). The Spaces of Justice The Architecture of the Scottish Court. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 187. ISBN   978-1683930891.
  7. ↑ "Fined as an absentee". The Scotsman. 30 May 1916 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "The Thirty-First of January: A Day of Disaster". The Lifeboat. XXXIII (365): 536. Spring 1953. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
  9. ↑ "QC abandons RBS 'negligence' case". BBC News. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  10. ↑ "Ian Hamilton QC v The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC – Oban Sheriff Court". Case Check. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  11. ↑ "Ian Hamilton sues RBS over shares". The Sunday Times. 18 January 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
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