What is recorded here

Edinburgh, Colinton Road, Merchiston Castle School, Main Building and Memorial Hall stands as a twentieth-century school and war memorial in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. Children may have run its halls while adults remembered the dead, mixing joyful noise with solemn quiet under one roof. The building still holds that dual purpose, teaching the living and honouring those who vanished before it was completed.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Colinton Road, Merchiston Castle School, Main Building and Memorial Hall as School (20th Century), War Memorial (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Merchiston Castle, now part of Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, was originally built in the 17th century and significantly expanded in the 19th century; it is remembered for its historical association with the Crichton family and its role as an educational institution. The Main Building and Memorial Hall, constructed in the 20th century, include a war memorial honoring those who died in World War I.

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