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View from east of northern side of St Bernard's Crescent, Edinburgh

SC 533086

Description View from east of northern side of St Bernard's Crescent, Edinburgh

Catalogue Number SC 533086

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 45453

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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