Public Monuments and Sculpture Association: Edinburgh

Date 1997

Event ID 585548

Category Project

Type Project

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585548

The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (http://www.pmsa.org.uk/) set up a National Recording Project in 1997 with the aim of making a survey of public monuments and sculpture in Britain ranging from medieval monuments to the most contemporary works. Information from the Edinburgh project was added to the RCAHMS database in October 2010 and again in 2012.

The PMSA (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association) Edinburgh Sculpture Project has been supported by Eastern Photocolour, Edinburgh College of Art, the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, Historic Scotland, the Hope Scott Trust, The Old Edinburgh Club, the Pilgrim Trust, the RCAHMS, and the Scottish Archive Network.

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
612260	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Cast-iron rectangular reliefs form an interrupted frieze between piers of stone. Within each corrugated panel is a square depicting a worker or tree. Four trees and four trades are used in different combinations. The trees represent the four seasons: one has blossom, one has a rainbow, one has falling leaves, and one has rain and a flash of lightning. The workers are a builder, a brewer, a printer and a mill-worker. The builder has a trowel and level and is erecting a wall; the brewer has a cask beside him; the printer holds a book in his right hand and operates a printing press with his left; the mill-worker has equipment on either side of him. [...]	2 August 1999
612422	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Bar sign in the form of a 3D metal map of Australia, with colour illuminated rounded letters OZ (illuminated at night), fixed above door on corner site. [...]	2 August 1999
612386	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Two label stops form the ends of a round arch above the door (stops are c.180cm from ground). Left has seaweed fronds growing up, right has three scallop, two cone and one spiral shells (there is a similar one on the door to no.10 Pier Place). [...]	17 August 1999

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551 5/10/16

Archive from evaluation at Gracemount, Gilmerton, Edinburgh.

551 5/10/16/1

Report and site notes from evaluation at Gracemount, Gilmerton, Edinburgh.

551 5/10/16/2

Photographic archive from evaluation at Gracemount, Gilmerton, Edinburgh.

Public Monuments and Sculpture Association: Edinburgh

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