View from the Melville Monument towards Old Town

Category

Library Item

Item no

14255

Title

View from the Melville Monument towards Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town

Description

View from the Melville Monument towards the Old Town, Edinburgh. Looking over the roof of Jenners department store we can see Ramsay Gardens, the Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland with its two towers and the tall spire of the Highland Tolbooth St John's Church. In the foreground are the trees of Princes Street Gardens, behind are the Pentland Hills.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2008

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Melville Monument, St Andrew Square, was erected between 1820 and 1823 to the memory of Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount Melville, who died in 1811. The monument comprises an imposing Roman column almost 42 metres in height, crowned by a statue of Dundas. The column itself was designed by William Burn, who received advice on its foundations from Robert Stevenson following concerns expressed by local residents as to its stability. The statue is by the sculptor Robert Forrest from a model by the English sculptor Francis Legatt Chantrey. It was only commissioned when construction of the monument was well underway, and was not added until 1827-28.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Spires

Landscape > Land > Hills

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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