1818 – City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
Architect: William Playfair
The third design for this Observatory, the original building (centre of photograph) is a small cruciform classical temple with a central telescope and dome.
1823 – Melville Monument, Edinburgh
Architect: William Burn
Built in 1823, the Melville Monument is a 41 metre high tribute to Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville.
1826 – Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Architect: William Henry Playfair
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.
1829 – National Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
Architect: Charles Robert Cockerell
The National Monument was built as an act of deliberate folly and contrary to popular lore was not the result of lack of funds.
1833 – St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
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.
1834 – Crichton Royal Asylum, Dumfries, Scotland
Architect: William Burn
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.
1835 – St Mark’s Unitarian Church, Edinburgh
Architect: David Bryce
A fine facade with tall roundheaded windows masks a good galleried interior with cast iron columns.
1843 – Glasgow Royal Asylum, Gartnavel, Scotland
Architect: Charles Wilson
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.
1844 – Tolbooth St John’s, Edinburgh
Architect: J. Gillespie Graham / Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
A large Gothic church both in architectural style and for its dark brooding presence.
1846 – Scott Memorial, Edinburgh
Architect: George Kemp
The Scott Monument was build between 1840-46 as a memorial to the writer Sir Walter Scott (1771 –
