Interior. General view of the Circle Bar from the North East.
SC 466238
Description Interior. General view of the Circle Bar from the North East.
Date 1971
Catalogue Number SC 466238
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 5234
Scope and Content Circle Bar at the Café Royal, West Register Street, Edinburgh The Café Royal in West Register Street, a narrow zigzag street between Princes Street and St Andrew Square, was designed in 1861 by Robert Paterson as a showroom for gas and sanitary fittings. It opened instead in 1863 as the Café Royal Hotel. The Circle Bar has a marble floor, an elaborate ceiling, and six late Victorian tiled murals of famous inventors on the wall. An arcaded mirrored screen divides it from the Oyster Bar next door. The island bar has brass Corinthian lamp-standards. In the 1930s, Rose Street was the centre of the 'Scottish Literary Renaissance'; poets, Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley Maclean, and novelist, Eric Linklater, met there regularly. Today, Edinburgh's most famous modern literary pub is the Café Royal. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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