Mungo Park Memorial, High Street, Selkirk is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1971. Monument. 1 related planning application.

Mungo Park Memorial, High Street, Selkirk

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Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Scottish Borders
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 12 March 1971
Type: Monument
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Andrew Currie (designer and carver), 1859; Thomas Clapperton, bas reliefs, 1905; bronze statues, 1913. Ashlar monument surmounted by statue of Mungo Park. Base course; square-plan coped pedestal with rectangular panels with cast-iron bas reliefs to SE and NW elevations (of Mungo Park?s travels) 2 other elevations with carved inscriptions (see Notes), bronze statues to each corner (of pedestal), representing Peace, War, Slavery and Home in the Niger; battered course (with carved lion-head to each corner) to panelled converging section. Pedestrian statue of Park facing N.

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