| Old Academy | |
| Coordinates: | 56.4002°N -3.4325°W |
| Location: | 6–7 Rose Terrace, Perth, Scotland |
| Architect: | Robert Reid |
| Architecture: | Georgian |
| Designation1: | Category A Listed Building |
| Designation1 Date: | 20 May 1965 |
| Designation1 Number: | LB39322 |
The Old Academy is an historic building in Perth, Scotland. Located on Rose Terrace, overlooking the southern end of the North Inch, it is a Category A listed building, built between 1803 and 1807.[1] It was the home of Perth Academy between 1807 and 1932.
Perth's lord provost Thomas Hay Marshall was involved with its design, by Robert Reid, four years before his death.[2]
The building formerly housed the 1696-founded Perth Academy (at the time specialising mostly in Maths and the sciences), the Grammar (specialising in mostly Classics, History and Philosophy), the English School, the French school,[3] the Drawing and Painting school, and the Writing school. Together they were known as the public Seminaries.[4]
The building's balustraded parapet with a clock and statues of Britannia and a British Lion was added in 1886, the work of sculptor William Birnie Rhind. His father, John Rhind, died in Perth three years later.
Andrew Granger Heiton made additions in 1907,[5] and Donald Alexander Stewart made alterations to the academy's preparatory department in 1908.[6]
Perth Academy moved to its current location, in the Viewlands area of the city, in 1932.[7]