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Edinburgh, St Bernard's Well Photographic copy of engraving showing St Bernard's Well by Water of Leith Copied from 'Modern Athens'. Insc. 'St. Bernard's Well, Water of Leith. Drawn by Tho. H Shepherd ...
SC 465101
Description Edinburgh, St Bernard's Well Photographic copy of engraving showing St Bernard's Well by Water of Leith Copied from 'Modern Athens'. Insc. 'St. Bernard's Well, Water of Leith. Drawn by Tho. H Shepherd. Engraved by J B Allen'
Date 1829
Collection General Collection
Catalogue Number SC 465101
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 49695 P
Scope and Content Early 19th-century engraving of St Bernard's Well on the south bank of the Water of Leith, Stockbridge, Edinburgh Stockbridge, on the banks of the Water of Leith, has more of the character of a small town than a suburb, although the pre-1813 village of riverside cottages, mills and villas was quite transformed by later development. Just west of Stockbridge on the river is St Bernard's Well, a circular domed temple of ten Doric columns within which is a statue of Hygeia. It covers a mineral spring discovered about 1760, and regarded at the time as having powerful healing properties. Lord Gardenstone, a Senator of the College of Justice, believing that he had benefited from the medicinal properties of the water, commissioned Alexander Nasmyth in 1788 to build the present well on the site of a much smaller structure. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES (Illustration from Modern Athens, T H Shepherd, 1829)
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