View from west of Scott Monument and people sitting in the garden

Description View from west of Scott Monument and people sitting in the garden

Date c. 1890

Collection Collection of photographs by Thomas Polson Lugton, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 466193

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ED 11817

Scope and Content Early 20th-century view of the Scott Monument, East Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh The Scott Monument, designed by George Meikle Kemp, was completed in 1844 at a cost of £16,000. It commemorates Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh's greatest publicist and author of the Waverley Novels, who died at Abbotsford in 1832. The Scott Monument is a Gothic steeple 61m high, highly decorated and ornamented. The lowest section, with four tall arches and diagonal buttresses, forms an elaborate canopy for the marble statue of Sir Walter Scott by Sir John Steell. A competition for a memorial to Sir Walter Scott was held in 1836. Of the 55 entrants, George Meikle Kemp's design was chosen. The original intended site of Charlotte Square was abandoned and work began in Princes Street Gardens in 1840. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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