page_title: Alexander Black (architect)
section_title: List of works
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Black (architect) / List of works
caption_attribution_description: English: the rear entrance to Alexander Black's Heriot School on the Cowgate
context_page_description: Alexander Black was a Scottish architect, born in Edinburgh around 1790 who is mainly known for his association with George Heriot’s School where he acted as Superintendent of Works for most of his active life.
context_section_description: Refacing of George Heriot’s School in ashlar stonework (1833)
  Layout of roads between Stockbridge and Henderson Row (Saxe-Coburg Place, Clarence St etc.) (1834)
  Glasite Meeting House, Barony Street (1835) (from 1991 to 2012 the base of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland)
  George Heriot's Primary School (now the Science Block) (1838)
  Trust School at Old Assembly Close (1839)
  Trust School at Rose Street (1840)
  Trust School at Brown’s Square (1840)
  Trust School at Borthwick's Close (1840)
  Trust School at Cowgate/Pleasance (1840) (now a Salvation Army hostel)
  Masterplan for the area between Leith Walk and Easter Road (1848)
  Feuing of Wester Coates (1850)
  Trust School at Broughton Street (1853)
  Remodelling of Bonnington House near Ratho (1858)
  Tenements on Barony Street (works completed by William Notman in 1859)
caption: Rear entrance in High School Yards to Black's Heriot School on the Cowgate
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