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List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
SIR WALTER SCOTT'S MONUMENT	Scott Monument Scott Monument Monument to Sir Walter Scott Sir W. Scott's Monument Sir Walter Scott's Monument	Map of City McDowal's Guide Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] 1845 KirKwood's Map Johnston's Map		[Situation] South Side of Princes Street in East Princes Street Garden A handsome monument consisting of a Gothic structure of the florid style. The lower [part] of this Structure is a Gothic [aisle] or arch, beneath this arch is a [---] platform approached by stone [steps] on which is placed a statue of [Sir] W. Scott in a sitting posture [with] a dog by his side. The aisle or [---] is a sort of vaulted roof [---] with groinings and a pendent in the [---] above the aisle arise a Spire the most elegant &. elaborate [---] &. 200 feet, ornamented with richly carved niches, Statues, pinnacles, buttreses &c., much of this detail being copied from Melrose [Abbey] It was founded in1840 and inaugurated in 1846 and cost £16000. It is a design of Mr. G. M. Kemp an [architect] who was hitherto scarcely known to the [public] and who was drowned during the time of its [erection] by falling into the Union Canal.

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1851 - Sheet 29
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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