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Architecture Notes
Event ID 835744
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/835744
Notes:
The subject consists of a giant stone statue (some 31 feet high) of William Wallace and a classical funeral-style urn built on an outcrop above the River Tweed. It was built for David Stuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan, c.1814. The sculptor was John Smith. The urn is inscribed with the following lines:
Sacred to the memory of Wallace
The peerless Knight of Ellerslie [sic]
Who wav'd on Ayr's Romantic shore
The beamy torch of Liberty
And roaming round from Sea to Sea
From Glade obscure of gloomy Rock
His bold companions call'd to free
The Realm from Edward's Iron Yoke.
Information from RCAHMS
(NMC) March 2003.
