Architecture Notes
Event ID 767283
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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NT27SE 481 25585 73904
Architect: George Meikle Kemp
Builder: David Lind
Other designs for the Scott Monument
Obelisk by W H Playfair 1835, to be 200 ft high on base of 44ft. Designed monument to go in 9 different places
Rickman & Mussey 1835 - not executed
Details transcribed from NMRS Architecture Catalogue. Correct spelling is Rickman and Hussey. Information from RCAHMS (SC) 6 May 2008
Erected 1840 - 1844 at a cost of nearly 16,000 [pounds] after designs by George M Kemp. The white marble statue of Scott is by Sir John Steell and was place in position in 1846.
Stained glass designed by David Roberts, prepared by Mr Ballentine
NT27SE 481 2558 7390
Designs also submitted by David Cousin, ?McGibbon & Ross
George Heriot by Peter Slater
REFERENCE - National Archives of Scotland
J M W Turner 1775-1851
Monument to the Memory of Sir Walter Scott
Abbotsford Appeal
Turner agrees to serve on the committee of the Abbotsford Appeal particularly as he has a 'personal regard created by my having been to Abbotsford'.
1832 GD 157/2038/5
Site of the Monument to Sir Walter Scott
'Abbotsford itself, is, in my opinion, the best and only architectural monument which can with propriety belong to that part of the country'.
1832 GD 157/2023/13
1843-1845
Few letters relating to the monument to Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh
(Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Lord Melville).
GD 224/511/9
National Library of Scotland
MS 15974 Note of subscription etc
MS 1631 ff 29-39 "Report on the Proc of the Sub-committee appointed 28 Nov 1833, to procure designs for the Monument to Sir Walter Scott"
The Times, 2 August 1991 - article describes murals on timber hoarding surrounding monument (missing at time of upgrade - 16.5.1997)
Kindred Spirits in Scotland: Turner & Scott by G E Finley
The Connoisseur August 1973 - text and illustrations - (missing at time of upgrade - 16.5.1997)
NMRS Print Room/Rare Books No 33
A Eddington Edinburgh and The Lothians 1904
Opposite p19 Photograph of Princes Street, showing Scott Monument, 'Princes Street, Edinburgh (Looking West)' 'Photo by A.A. Inglis'
p22 Photograph - in text - of Scott Monument 'Scott Monument, Princes Street' 'Pike & Co' 'Photo by Marshall Wane & Co'
Article George Kemp and his Monument RIAS Quarterly 1929 No 29 p. 1
Article The Scott Monument and its Architect Architectural Review Pamphlet July 1944 p27
The Scott Monument Guide 1949 - text and photographs D5/E(P)
NLS Fettercairn Papers, Mss Acc, 4796 Box 57 - letter concerning subscription for/and building of monument
J G Dunbar Building Chronicle Vol 2 p139 Dec 1st 1856 - text