New Calton Burying Ground, Edinburgh

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

11380

Title

New Calton Burying Ground, Edinburgh

Description

Looking across new Calton Burying Ground, we can see the columned Playfair monument on the horizon. The graveyard has many monuments and gravestones separated by railings. In the centre of the image is a circular watchtower with a crenellated roof and a small chimney. A single tree stands in the foreground.

Artist / maker

Begbie, Thomas

Date

1887

Size

8.3 x 17.1 cm

Type

Glass negative

Location

City Art Centre

Copyright

The Cavaye Collection of Thomas Begbie Prints ; The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries

The New Calton Burial Ground was created in 1820 to accommodate those bodies displaced from the Old Calton Burial Ground by the construction of Waterloo Place. It is situated below Regent Road looking over to Holyrood Park. A watchtower stands in the burial ground, erected in an attempt to prevent the theft of bodies for dissection.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Railings

Architecture > Monuments > Gravestones

Architecture > Monuments > Memorial monuments

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton

Places > Edinburgh areas > Calton Hill

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Plants > Trees > Trees

Religion > Religious facilities > Graveyards

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