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Dumfries, Queensbury Square, Queensberry Monument

Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Dumfries, Queensbury Square, Queensberry Monument

Classification Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Queensberry Column; English Street

Canmore ID 159807

Site Number NX97NE 325

NGR NX 97235 76149

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Dumfries
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Nithsdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Architecture Notes

NX97NE 325 97517 76192

Though originally erected in Queensberry Square, during the 1930's the monument was moved to a site in front of the County Buildings (NX 97517 76192) in English Street.

NX 97235 76149: The monument was moved back to Queensbury Square in 1990.

Information from Andrew Nicholson (dumfries and Galloway Council) 9 September 2003

NMRS REFERENCE:

Architect: Robert Adam (v.Soane Drawings vol. 44, no. 81)

Groome gives date as 1804

Activities

Photographic Survey (1956)

Photographs of buildings in Dumfries by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1956.

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