Railings With Gates And Lamps, Royal Circus Gardens, Edinburgh

Early 19th century, and later. Railings surrounding circular-plan gardens, and adjacent gardens to E and W; predominantly ashlar dwarf walls, broached at central gardens, with saddleback copes, roll-moulded to N and S of central gardens, chamfered flanking thoroughfare, surmounted by cast-iron railings, set diagonally to street, with fleur-de-lis and quasi-Maltese Cross finials; pairs of polygonal posts with pyramidal caps adjoining walls, flanking NW and SE entrances to thoroughfare. Some later rectilinear-patterned railings, with shaped ends to balusters, set in central panels to gardens at E and W; pall stone at NW corner of E garden; ashlar wall to NW of W garden, raised to right of centre; former gate centred at E elevation of W garden, with remains of honeysuckle motif at base. Some cast-iron lamps with glass globes set in copes to W garden.