Architecture Notes

Event ID 827103

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS31NW 32.01 NS 33218 17985 Office (ticket)

NS31NW 32.02 NS 33255 17911 (Statue House)

NMRS REFERENCE

Architect: Thomas Hamilton 1818-23

See Historical File - Monument to Robert Burns.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Plans: Thomas Hamilton competition design 1818 - framed drawing kept in monument

National Gallery of Scot. comp drawing - Thomas Hamilton - small drawing

SRO

Agreement [Copy] concerning the gift of a site for the monument to Robert Burns.

Signed by John Goudie

Addresses to the Members of the Incorporation of Shoemakers in Ayr

13 January

1816 GD 142/52/1

Proposed erection of a monument to Robert Burns

Letter from Alexander Boswell to Hugh Hamilton of Pinmore

He wishes Mr Hamilton to act as convener of the committe in charge of the scheme and he suggests considering Sir David Blair 'a most expert architect' as the designer.

January 19

1816 GD 142/52/2

EEC 1820 Jan 24

Note on Burns Monument

Plan Thos Hamilton Junior

base triangular representing

3 different districts of Ayrshire etc

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

SMT Magazine January 1950, article and photograph.