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SIR WALTER SCOTT'S MONUMENT Scott Monument
Scott Monument
Map of City
McDowall's Guide Book
002 A most elegant Gothic structure erected to the memory of Sir Walter Scott. It was founded on the 15th of August 1840, and inaugurated on the 15th of August 1846, and cost to the present time £16000. It is an open Gothic cross or tower, many of its details being taken from Melrose Abbey. It is founded upon a rock 52 feet below the surface, and rises above the level of the Street to the height of 200 feet, A Statue of Sir Walter Scott, sculptured from a large block of Carara marble, by Mr John Steele, rests on a platform, approached by a flight of steps, and represents him in a sitting posture, attired in a plaid with a book in his hand; and his favourite dog maida at his feet. From the corners of the platform arises a series of clustered Columns, which support 4 arches, forming a vaulted roof, crossed with groinings, and having a pendant in the centre, Four projecting buttresses are also connected with the vaulted roof by arches, and these spring up as lateral towers to the height of 90 feet. These serve as imposts to 4 flying buttresses, which terminate in pedestals on which are placed a Friar, a nun, a jester, and a Knight Templar. The Capitals Separating the clustered columns, represent 16 Scottish poets (viz [namely] James Hog, Burns, Ferguson, Ramsay etc etc The pediment above the arches contains richly carved niches, and is surmounted by [a] screen which runs around the first gallery, on a level with this gallery is a square apartment, intended for a museum, having spacious arched windows partially concealed by the canopies and crosses of 4 niches, which contain a statue of Prince Charles Stewart on the North, Meg Merrilees on the East, the Lady of the Lake on the South, and the last minstrel on the West. Above this are other three galleries, the highest of which is reached by a flight of 287 steps and is surrounded by a projecting screen, supported by 8 figures of Druidical priests on their bended Knees, with scrolls in their hands, and on the sides of the tower above are statues Meg Dods, Mause Headrig, Dominie Sampson and Dandie Dinmont.

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List of Names collected by David Ramsay c/a [Civilian Assistant] Dec [December] 31st 1851
[Signed] D. Ramsay c/a [Civilian Assistant]

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