Great King Street, general Photographic copy of drawing of pilaster capital, base and section of chimney cornice of a typical return 1/2 full scale, photostat
C 65576 P
Description Great King Street, general Photographic copy of drawing of pilaster capital, base and section of chimney cornice of a typical return 1/2 full scale, photostat
Date 4/1966
Collection General Collection
Catalogue Number C 65576 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of EDD 100/6
Copies SC 502942
Scope and Content Drawing of the capital of an Ionic pilaster, Great King Street, Edinburgh Great King Street, designed by Robert Reid in 1804 as the grand central avenue of the northern New Town, links Royal Circus and Drummond Place, which enclose it at either end. Feuing began in 1812, and was completed 1814-23. Ionic pilasters, characterised by the scroll-shape on either side of the capital or head of the column, run between the first and second floors of the end pavilions and central blocks of the four identical terraces in the street. The Ionic order is one of three main types of orders of Classical architecture, often used on succesive levels of a building, usually in the upward sequence of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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