The Outlook Tower and Hub, Ramsay Gardens

Category

Library Item

Item no

39186

Title

The Outlook Tower and Hub, Ramsay Gardens

Artist / maker

Murphy, Bernard

Date

2010

Size

10.2 x 15.1 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

In the late 19th century Ramsay Gardens, designed by Sir Patrick Geddes, were built around Ramsay Lodge, which the poet Alan Ramsay designed and built as his home in the mid 18th century, immediately to the north of Castle Hill in Edinburgh.

The Outlook Tower contains a Camera Obscura which dates from 1853, but the building was greatly altered by Patrick Geddes when he took it over in 1892.

The Tolbooth Church, otherwise known as Victoria Hall or St John's Highland Tolbooth Kirk, was built in 1842-44 as both a parish church and a meeting place for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The General Assembly ceased to use the building when they relocated to 'Assembly Hall' on the Mound in 1929. The Church's congregation left the building in 1979, amalgamating with the congregation of Greyfriars Kirk. The Church fell into disuse but was revived in 1999 as 'The Hub', an information centre, ticket office, and venue for the Edinburgh International Festival.

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