Architecture Notes

Event ID 835744

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Notes:

The subject consists of a giant stone statue (some 31 feet high) of William Wallace and a classical funeral-style urn built on an outcrop above the River Tweed. It was built for David Stuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan, c.1814. The sculptor was John Smith. The urn is inscribed with the following lines:

Sacred to the memory of Wallace

The peerless Knight of Ellerslie [sic]

Who wav'd on Ayr's Romantic shore

The beamy torch of Liberty

And roaming round from Sea to Sea

From Glade obscure of gloomy Rock

His bold companions call'd to free

The Realm from Edward's Iron Yoke.

Information from RCAHMS

(NMC) March 2003.