Stirling High School
Spittal Street, Stirling, Scotland (From 1856 to 1962.)

Badge as depicted in Bunty #64 [4 Apr 1959]



The coat of arms shows Queen Margaret, richly habited and crowned bearing in her right hand a sceptre and in her left a book all proper between two trees of knowledge, to remind us of the remote 12th century, when a bishop of St. Andrews, in whose diocese Stirling was, gave to Queen Margaret's Church of the Holy Trinity of Dunfermline the churches of Perth and Stirling and their schools. The wolf, couchant gardant, at the Queen's feet is taken from the "Small" Burgh seal, and reflects the early interest in education taken by the magistrates of the Royal Burgh, for later charters speak of scholam de Striuelin, and Scholam ejusdam ville, which suggest that the 'Church' school fairly soon became the town's school. [Wikipedia]

From 1856 to 1962 the High School was housed in a specially created building on Spittal Street. This building housed the classrooms for Mathematics, English, Modern Languages, Art, Classics; as well as a Gymnasium, and an Observatory on the roof. This building is now occupied by the Stirling Highland Hotel.

In 1962,the school moved from its place at the top of the town, to Torbrex adjacent to its pre 1856 site. A new building was opened in June 2008. It's present address is Torbrex Farm Road, Torbrex, Stirling.



1952 OS Map showing the school when it was on Spittal Street.
(Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland)

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• Story Papers & Comics / Bunty / Bunty 064 [4 Apr 1959]

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