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View from east of northern side of crescent
C 45453
Description View from east of northern side of crescent
Date 26/3/1995
Catalogue Number C 45453
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 533086
Scope and Content St Bernard's Crescent, Stockbridge, Edinburgh St Bernard's Crescent, an imposing double-crescent, was built c.1824 in grand style as part of a new Georgian housing development initiated by the painter, Sir Henry Raeburn, on his estate on the north side of the Water of Leith. The three-storeyed centrepiece of the crescent has giant Doric columns rising from pavement level. The supporting two-storeyed houses share the same cornice line, but have balustrades instead of an attic floor, and an iron balcony at first-floor level. St Bernard's Crescent was the inspiration of Sir David Wilkie, a fellow artist of Sir Henry Raeburn. According to a 19th-century author, it is 'adorned with the grandest Grecian Doric pillars that are to be found in any edifice not a public one'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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