Playfair's Monument, City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 April 1966. Monument.

Playfair's Monument, City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh

WRENN ID: quiet-spire-burdock
Grade: A
Local Planning Authority: City of Edinburgh
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 19 April 1966
Type: Monument
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

William Henry Playfair, 1825-6. Square-plan Greek Doric memorial. Polished ashlar. Projecting base plinth (to sections outside enclosure only) supporting podium with projecting base course chamfered to upper section; moulded cornice; tetrastyle blind colonnade of engaged fluted Greek Doric columns; entablature with metopes ornamented with laurel wreaths, pyramidal stone roof.

S ELEVATION: inscribed on podium: 'Joanni Playfair Amicorum Pietas, Desideriis Icta Fidelibus, Quo Ipse Loco Templum Uranaie Suae, Olim Dicaverat, Hoc Monumentum, Posuit MDCCCXXVI, Nat VI IDUS MART MDCCXLVIII, OBIT XIV KAL SEXTIL MDCCCXIX'.

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