1818 – City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
The third design for this Observatory, the original building (centre of photograph) is a small cruciform classical temple with a central telescope and dome.
The third design for this Observatory, the original building (centre of photograph) is a small cruciform classical temple with a central telescope and dome.
Built in 1823, the Melville Monument is a 41 metre high tribute to Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville.
Originally constructed between 1824-26, the Royal Institution (as it was until 1911) was extended in the 1830s to create the building we see today.
The National Monument was built as an act of deliberate folly and contrary to popular lore was not the result of lack of funds.
St Giles’ Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh, with its distinctive open crown steeple supported by eight flying buttresses mainly dates from the fifteenth century.
Designed with two central octagonal towers from which wings for the patients extended, Burns work at Crichton was a very ambitious project that was ultimately not completed.
A fine facade with tall roundheaded windows masks a good galleried interior with cast iron columns.
An unusual design in Tudor Gothic, built in 1842-43, with the chapel completed in 1904. Initially built to hold 420 patients and later extended.
A large Gothic church both in architectural style and for its dark brooding presence.
The Scott Monument was build between 1840-46 as a memorial to the writer Sir Walter Scott (1771 –
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