Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Stranraer HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <p>Matt Baker will lead a talk and walk around Castle Square at 12 noon on Saturday ONLY. Places for this will be limited and must be booked – please ring The CatStrand on 01644 420374.</p><p>Directions: In centre of Stranraer. There is car parking on the waterfront and in the Market Street car parks. Partial disabled access. There is wheelchair access to the ground floor. The rest of the building is reached via a steep spiral staircase.</p> OpeningTime1 10.00-13.00 & 13.30-16.30 OpeningDate1 29/9/2012 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 12351 Refreshments No Street The street address Castle Square Postcode DG9 7EJ Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Castle Square: Talk and Walk by Matt Baker Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived dumfriesandgalloway Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1014 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,54.90446,-5.025952; Description An account of the resource <div>Castle of St John, Stranraer and Guided Town trail led by John Picken. A chance to meet Matt Baker, one of the artists behind this national award-winning town square, and hear about its inspiration and the background to its design and build.</div><div>Matt, whose grandfather was born in Bellevilla Street in the town, worked with fellow artist David Ralston and poet Mary Smith to interpret Castle Square, making use of the theme of water moving, in burn and ocean, so important to Stranraer’s position and history. Their work, commissioned by Smith Scott Mullan Design Associates, won both the Scottish Design Awards best public realm project 2011 and the Saltire Society Award for Art in Architecture 2011.</div><div>Castle of St John itself is a late medieval tower house, built around 1500 by the Adairs of Kilhilt, one of the most powerful families in Wigtownshire. In 1820 the building was converted into the town prison and the original cells still survive. There are superb views over the town and Loch Ryan from the castle roof.</div><div>Guided town trail around Historic Stranraer led by Museum Curator John Picken. </div>