Architecture Notes

Event ID 692769

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692769

NT27SE 348 26252 74107

Information from a catalogue slip:

Architect: Robert Burn, (Father of William Burn) begun 1807

NMRS REFERENCE

See Historical File (1.12)

REFERENCE

PLANS:

City Architects Plan Store, drawers Nos. 85 and 91 contains:-

1. Original Plan and Elevation (to which reference already made) of "screen wall and apartments around Nelson's Monument on the Calton Hill". Scale 10 feet to 1 inch. daed 13th May 1814 and signed Thomas Bonnar. Also signed by John Dickson as referring to his estimate "fore furnishing Nelson's Monument".

2.Tracings of December 1855 shewing a New Roof, scale 1" to 1foot. Section of Tower shewing timbers etc., scale 1" to 1 foot. The alterations made in erecting the time ball.

3. Contract Plan shewing Turnstiles at Entrance, scale 2 1/2" to 10 feet, Public Works Office 1886.

4. Block Plan shewing line of Drawin 1898.

5. Tracing to plan shewing new kitchen and bathroom alterations to caretaker's house. City Architects Department 1937.

There are NMRS reproductions of Nos. 1,2 and 5 above see EDD/27/1-3

REFERENCE:

Hugh Cairncross (Robert Burn, Archt)

Edinburgh. Nelson Monument. Specification, 1808

(Edinburgh Evening Courant, July 28, 1808)

(Undated) information in NMRS.