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Kinross, 108 High Street, Old Post Office

Post Office (19th Century)

Site Name Kinross, 108 High Street, Old Post Office

Classification Post Office (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Old Parish Church

Canmore ID 27887

Site Number NO10SW 17

NGR NO 11926 02077

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Kinross
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Kinross-shire

Archaeology Notes

NO10SW 17.00 11926 02077

NO10SW 17.01 NO 11922 02069 Town Hall/Tolbooth

(NO 1193 0208) Church (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1854)

The only remains of the old Parish Church are at the north-east corner of the Town Hall and consist of a plain steeple with a clock and bell in it. The date of this old church is not known and the Town Hall now occupies its site.

Name Book 1854

Before 1742 the parish church stood within the old burying ground immediately beside the lake (see NO10SW 10). It was removed from this situation to another at the west of the town, which, gradually extending its dimensions, came at length to place the church in its centre.

New Statistical Account (NSA 1845 G Buchanan)

The remains would appear to be as described above.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 December 1963

Site Management (4 November 2003)

2-storey, 3-bay Classically-detailed former office with corniced and pedimented doorpiece flanked by canted bays, and splayed angle to rear; lower 2-storey, single bay, crowstep-gabled former Post Office (probably of same date) projecting at NW with Clock Tower in re-entrant angle (see separate listing). Grey sandstone ashlar with snecked rubble, some squared, to sides and rear; ashlar dressings, some droved; Post Office red sandstone with contrasting grey ashlar dressings. Banded base course and moulded corniced eaves course. Stone mullions to tri-partite canted bays at ground floor.

The former Post Office is part of a B group with the Carnegie Library, former Town Hall and Clock tower (see separate listings) which represent the former civic centre of Kinross Burgh This is a prominently set classical office building, which makes a significant contribution, with fine stonework and a classical design, to the heart of Kinross Burgh, and forms a central part of a terrace of civic buildings including the adjacent former Town Hall and Carnegie Library (see separate listings). The building, which includes the former post office, is built on the site of the 1742-3 Parish Church which was demolished in 1832, the piended north elevation incorporates the separately listed 1751 Clock Tower (steeple of former Parish Church) and the crowstepped former Post Office.

The building links internally with the former Town Hall and compliments the small group of buildings at the civic heart of the town, which also includes the Carnegie Public Library and Fountain (see separate listings).

The Statistical Account of 1834-45 notes that Kinross 'is a post-town, where letters from the south arrive every evening about 9, and every morning at the same hour; and from the north at 2 A.M. and 4 P.M... For the gratuitous delivery of letters, for a branch of the British Linen Bank, and for other conveniences and advantages, Kinross stands indebted to the active and kind interference of Sir James Montgomery'. (Historic Scotland)

Activities

Desk Based Assessment (24 April 2012)

A desk based assessment of this building was made by RCAHMS Threatened Building Survey following a consent/planning application for alteration works at the site being submitted to the local authority.

A survey of the site has been requisitioned based on this assessment.

Planning Application ref – 12/00478/LBC

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