Towns > Dundee > 1822 - Dundee delineated; or, A history and description of that town, its institutions, manufactures and commerce

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Dundee, January, 1315 — Mr Thomas Duncan, Rector of
the Dundee Academy, published an address to the Inhabi- •
t ants, on the necessity of a new building for the Academy- — ■
and urged strongly its usefulness for youth — and advised a.
subscription to be immediately begun — ae we had done
much in adorning Churches, Theatre, Infirmary, Asylum,,
&c. He hoped an Institution now of 15 years standing,,
would meet with support. Mr Webster of London had
left ;£6G00 for Education in Dundee — about 120 guineas,
of which came yearly to the Academy ; but it was expressly
ordered for 50 bursars, at 4 guineas each Session — that i9 S
guineas the course. The rest of it being for an English
School for boys, and an English and Sewing School for
girls. The Magistrates' patronage has hitherto been ma-
naged with prudence and dignity. They pay =£150 of sa-
laries; and have lately given ?£80 for augmenting the ap-
paratus.
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Of the date of the erection of this chapel there exists no
authentic record. It is known, that the nave, transepts,
and tower were built by David, Earl of Huntingdon, in
the twelfth century. Tradition says that he built these
adjoining to the Chapel of St. Mary's in the field, because
there was not room at the parish church of St. Clement ;
and the style of architecture, the state of decay, and even
the different texture of the stone, evidently point to a peri-
od for the building of what is now called the Old Church,
considerably anterior to that of the nave, transepts, and
tower. The original chapel, or old church, has massive
walls without buttresses, and has few ornaments, while,
from the portions of the transepts that remain in the pre-
sent south and cross churches, as well as from the tower,
which is entire, it appears that, in the building by the Earl
of Huntingdon, buttresses were introduced, and that the
capitals, pinnacles, and niches were charged with orna-
&>&>&> The stone of the old church, top, is of a different