St Joseph's R. C. Boy's School, 126 Blackness Road, 124A, Dundee

James H Langlands, W G Lamond assisting, 1905-6. School

with Art Nouveau details, snecked bull-nosed rubble with

ashlar dressings. 4-storey stepped-frontage with taller

stair tower to street, consoled semi-circular hood at door

now window, mullioned windows 2 and 4-lights, curvilinear

parapets to tower and centre bay. 2-storey, 6-bay classroom

block with large arched windows, original mullioned and

transomed glazing, piended roof with central louvred

ventilator having broad eaves and flat dome. Extension by Wm

Friskin 1933, 2-storey polished ashlar, 5 bays between splayed

pilaster buttresses rising from plinth.

Left 3-bays have 4 windows to each bay between V-fronted

sectioned mullions, right 2 have small 3-high windows in each

floor. Polished ashlar face to original stair tower.

INTERIOR: plainly tiled square stairwell. Corridor to

classrooms has large arched windows, as at W elevation,

with 1933 concrete and brick extension to E. Rear of 1933

block open to yard at ground floor, with 1st floor corridor

cantilevered out on concrete floor.

Wrought iron Art Nouveau railings in re-entrant of original

block. Steel railings to playground, and reinstated to Blackness

Road 2002.