1818 – City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland
Architect: William Playfair
The third design for this Observatory,
1823 – Melville’s Monument, Edinburgh, Scotland
Architect: William Burn
Built in 1823, the Melville Monument is a 41 metre high tribute to Henry Dundas,
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, Scotland
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, Scotland
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,
1835 – St Mark’s Unitarian Church, Edinburgh, Scotland
Architect: David Bryce
A fine facade with tall roundheaded windows masks a good galleried interior with cast iron columns.
1843 – Glasgow Royal Hospital, Gartnavel, Scotland
Architect: Charles Wilson
An unusual design in Tudor Gothic,
1844 – Tolbooth St John’s, Edinburgh, Scotland
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, Scotland
Architect: George Kemp
The Scott Monument was built between 1840-46 as a memorial to the writer Sir Walter Scott (1771 –
