Building to be saved if city's bid is successful

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / March 20 2000: Building to be saved if city's bid is successful

Galway's historic Grammar School, which has been threatened with destruction, may be saved as the city authorities have put in a bid to purchase the Georgian building and restore it as a cultural and artistic centre. Built in 1815 by the prominent architect, Sir Richard Morris, it was run by the Erasmus Smith Foundation before it was sold in the 1950s to the university for use by the college's department of oceanography It was damaged by fire shortly before Christmas.

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