A bit of old Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

4074

Title

A bit of old Edinburgh

Description

View taken from the North Bridge across Low Calton to Trinity College Church, Calton Gaol and the monuments on Calton Hill.

Artist / maker

Hill, David Octavius

Date

1845

Size

12.6 x 17.5 cm

Type

Reproduction

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Calton Gaol was designed by Archibald Elliot as an alternative to Edinburgh's historic Tolbooth. It was located immediately to the south of Regent Road, overlooking Waverly Station. A Bridewell, or house of correction, designed by Robert Adam already stood on the site. The prison was opened in 1817, and closed in 1925 when the limited size of the premises necessitated a move to Saughton, the location of the present day prison. It was demolished, save the Governor's House which still stands, to make way for the Government Buildings of St Andrew's House.

Trinity College Church was established in 1460 on a site close to where Waverley Station now stands. It was dismantled in 1848 by the North British Railway Company, and rebuilt twenty four years later in its present location on Jeffrey Street.

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Architecture > Monuments > Memorial monuments

Crime and punishment > Crime and punishment facilities > Prisons

Places > Edinburgh areas > New Town

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Religion > Religious facilities > Protestant churches

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