View from WSW showing W and S fronts
SC 792299
Description View from WSW showing W and S fronts
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 792299
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content National Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in 1979, shows the National Monument, designed by C R Cockerell and William H Playfair as a monument to the Scots who had fallen in the Napoleonic Wars. It was designed as a replica of the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens. The scheme to build a monument was supported by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Cockburn and Lord Elgin. Construction began in 1826, and ended in 1829, when the money ran out. It is one of the Greek Revival structures which earned for Edinburgh the reputation for being the 'Athens of the North'. Calton Hill was uninhabitable until the construction of the North Bridge brought piped water to the New Town. Even then it was not developed significantly for housing, becoming instead a place for monuments and memorials, as well as for the city's prison and High School. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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