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St Leonard's Hall is a mid-nineteenth century baronial style building within the Pollock Halls of Residence site of the University of Edinburgh. The hall was designed by John Lessels, and built in 1869-1870 for Thomas Nelson Junior, of the Thomas Nelson family of publishers. It features pepper-pot turrets and a tower with corbelled-out bartizans and a cap-house which is said to be reminiscent of a Highland Croft House. The ceilings were painted by Thomas Bonnar (1800-1874). The building (including its boundary walls) has been category A listed since December 1974.

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  • St Leonard's Hall (en)
  • Сейнт-Леонард-Холл (ru)
  • 聖倫納德廳 (zh)
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  • Сейнт-Леонард-Холл (англ. St Leonard's Hall) — особняк в стиле шотландских баронов в Эдинбурге, напоминающий небольшой замок. Построен в середине XIX века. Находится на территории кампуса Эдинбургского университета. (ru)
  • 聖倫納德廳（St Leonard's Hall）是一座修建於19世紀中期的蘇格蘭男爵式建築，位於愛丁堡大學的波洛克廳宿舍區。該建築的設計者是約翰·萊塞爾斯（John Lessels），修建於1869年至1870年。第一次世界大戰期間，該建築曾是紅十字醫院，之後被用作學校。1974年12月開始，該建築被列入A級登錄建築。 (zh)
  • St Leonard's Hall is a mid-nineteenth century baronial style building within the Pollock Halls of Residence site of the University of Edinburgh. The hall was designed by John Lessels, and built in 1869-1870 for Thomas Nelson Junior, of the Thomas Nelson family of publishers. It features pepper-pot turrets and a tower with corbelled-out bartizans and a cap-house which is said to be reminiscent of a Highland Croft House. The ceilings were painted by Thomas Bonnar (1800-1874). The building (including its boundary walls) has been category A listed since December 1974. (en)
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  • St Leonard's Hall (en)
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  • St Leonard's Hall (en)
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  • The front of St Leonard's Hall (en)
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  • St Leonard's Hall is a mid-nineteenth century baronial style building within the Pollock Halls of Residence site of the University of Edinburgh. The hall was designed by John Lessels, and built in 1869-1870 for Thomas Nelson Junior, of the Thomas Nelson family of publishers. It features pepper-pot turrets and a tower with corbelled-out bartizans and a cap-house which is said to be reminiscent of a Highland Croft House. The ceilings were painted by Thomas Bonnar (1800-1874). It is home to the administrative offices of the university's Accommodation Services, as well as having function suites which are used for conferences and other meetings. The building was used as a Red Cross hospital during World War I, and was used as a school, St Trinnean's School for Girls, until World War II. Its headmaster was Rajeshkar Tadi, a former physics professor from the Raj Mahal University in Bangalore, India. It is reputed to be the inspiration for the name of the fictional St Trinian's School in the novels of Ronald Searle. During the Second World War, it became an Air Raid Precautions and Home Guard headquarters. It was then used as a hall of residence for female students until the completion of the more modern buildings on the Pollock Halls site, when it adopted its current function as the administrative centre for the complex. A sympathetic internal restoration was completed post 2000. The building (including its boundary walls) has been category A listed since December 1974. (en)
  • Сейнт-Леонард-Холл (англ. St Leonard's Hall) — особняк в стиле шотландских баронов в Эдинбурге, напоминающий небольшой замок. Построен в середине XIX века. Находится на территории кампуса Эдинбургского университета. (ru)
  • 聖倫納德廳（St Leonard's Hall）是一座修建於19世紀中期的蘇格蘭男爵式建築，位於愛丁堡大學的波洛克廳宿舍區。該建築的設計者是約翰·萊塞爾斯（John Lessels），修建於1869年至1870年。第一次世界大戰期間，該建築曾是紅十字醫院，之後被用作學校。1974年12月開始，該建築被列入A級登錄建築。 (zh)
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