Architecture Notes

Event ID 791022

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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RCAHMS Print Room

Greyfriars Churchyard

2 views of monuments (1 of them duplicated) and a close view of the statue of Greyfriars Bobby at the top of Candlemaker Row

W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection

Acc No 1997/39.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Located at junction of George IV Bridge and Candlemaker Row, opposite entrance to Greyfriars cemetery. Commemorates the legendary loyalty of the dog of John Gray (died 1858), police constable. Bronze statue by William Brodie, 1872. Erected by Baroness Burdett-Coutts, with drinking fountain beneath.

M T R B Turnbull 1989.

No longer functions as a drinking fountain (2000).

(Undated) information in NMRS.