List of public art in Edinburgh
This is a list of public art and memorials in Edinburgh, including statues and other sculptures.
The Scott Monument
Calton Hill
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Monument to John Playfair | Calton Hill 55.9548°N 3.1830°W |
1825-6 | William Henry Playfair | Square-plan Greek Doric monument | Polished ashlar | Category A-listed | Incorporated in observatory compound wall[1] | |
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Monument to Dugald Stewart | Calton Hill 55.9545°N 3.1845°W |
1831 | William Henry Playfair | Circular Greek-revival Corinthian monument | Polished ashlar | Category A-listed | Based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens.[2] | |
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Monument to Robert Burns | Regent Road, Calton Hill 55.9535°N 3.1783°W |
1831-9 | Thomas Hamilton | Circular Greek-revival Corinthian monument | Ashlar sandstone | Category A-listed | Based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens.[3] | |
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Political Martyrs' Monument | Old Calton Cemetery 55.9534°N 3.1858°W |
1844 | Thomas Hamilton | Obelisk | Category A-listed (as part of Old Calton Burial Ground) | |||
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Scottish-American Soldiers' Monument | Old Calton Cemetery 55.9535°N 3.1861°W |
1893 | George Edwin Bissell | Statue with subsidiary sculpture | Bronze figures on red granite pedestal | Category A-listed (as part of Old Calton Burial Ground) | ||
| Stones of Scotland Circle | Regent Road Park 55.9549°N 3.1745°W |
2002 | George Wyllie et al. | Circle of 32 stone slabs/rocks set in white stone chippings | Stone | Stones from each of Scotland's 32 local authorities; commemorates the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament | |||
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Holodomor Memorial Stone | Calton Hill, near Royal Terrace | 2017 | Memorial | Stone | Dedicated to the genocide by forced famine in Ukraine, 1932–1933 |
Colinton
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Covenanters’ Memorial | Redford Road 55.90468°N 3.238737°W |
Erected 1885. Stonework 1738 | William Adam (architect of Old Royal Infirmary (1738)) | Commemorative column | Stone | Category B-listed | Column formed from 4 engaged Ionic columns from frontispiece of demolished Old Royal Infirmary. | |
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Memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson | Dell Road, Colinton 55.908597°N 3.256297°W |
2013 | Alan Herriot | Statue | Bronze | — |
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| Memorial to Army pipers killed in conflict | Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming, Redford Barracks | 2013 | Alan Herriot | Statue | Bronze | — |
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Corstorphine
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Alan Breck Stewart & David Balfour. Characters from Kidnapped | Corstorphine Road 55.94503°N 3.249841°W |
2004 | Alexander Stoddart | Statue pair | Bronze figures. Sandstone pedestal | Unveiled by Sir Sean Connery | ||
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Gentoo Penguin | Edinburgh Zoo | |||||||
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Nils Olav (penguin soldier) | Edinburgh Zoo |
Craigentinny
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Mausoleum of William Henry Miller | Craigentinny Crescent 55.9571°N 3.1372°W |
1848–56 | David Rhind (architect); Alfred Gatley (reliefs) | Mausoleum with bas-relief sculpture | Category A-listed | [5] |
Cramond
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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The Cramond Fish | Cramond Beach 55.979722°N 3.294227°W |
2009 | Ronald Rae | Sculpture | Pink Corrennie granite | Carved at Cramond Kirk, bought by Cramond community |
Inverleith
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Monument to Carl Linnaeus | Chilean Area, Royal Botanic Garden 55.966842°N 3.207415°W |
1778–9 | Robert Adam (architect) | Urn on pedestal | Category A-listed | [6] | ||
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Ascending Form (Gloria) | Royal Botanic Garden | 1958 | Barbara Hepworth | Sculpture | Bronze | [7] | ||
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Rock Form (Porthcurno) | Royal Botanic Garden | 1964 | Barbara Hepworth | Sculpture | Bronze | [7] | ||
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Umbra solis | Royal Botanic Garden | 1975 | Ian Hamilton Finlay and Michael Harvey | Sundial | Slate | [8] | ||
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Slate, Hole, Wall | Royal Botanic Garden | 1990 | Andy Goldsworthy (artist) Joe Smith (waller) |
Sculpture | Cumbrian slate | [9] | ||
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Cone | Royal Botanic Garden | 1990 | Andy Goldsworthy | Sculpture | Ballachulish slate | [10] | ||
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Untitled | Royal Botanic Garden | 1995 | Alan Johnston | Sculpture | Made for the exhibition Haus Wittgenstein / Inverleith House.[11] | |||
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East Gates | Royal Botanic Garden | 1996 | Benjamin Tindall (architect) Alan Dawson (blacksmith) |
Gates | Stainless steel | [12] |
Leith
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Robert Burns | Junction of Bernard Street and Constitution Street 55.9754°N 3.1668°W |
1897–1901 | David Watson Stevenson | Statue | Bronze (statue and reliefs), red granite and red sandstone (pedestal) | Category B-listed | Unveiled 15 October 1898; additional panels unveiled 7 March 1901.[13] | |
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Queen Victoria | Foot of Leith Walk 55.9707°N 3.1717°W |
1907 | John Stevenson Rhind | Statue | Bronze (statue, reliefs and plaques), granite (pedestal) | Category B-listed | [14][15] | |
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Leith Mural | North Junction Street 55.9737°N 3.1775°W |
1986 | Tim Chalk and Paul Grime | Mural | [16] | |||
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6 Times (6th figure) |
Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh 55.9836°N 3.17636°W |
2010 | Antony Gormley | Statue | Cast iron | [17][18] | ||
| Sandy Irvine Robertson OBE (1942-1999) |
The Shore, Leith 55.9780°N 3.16933°W |
1999[19] | Lucy Poett | Statue sitting on bench | Bronze | Life-size |
New Town
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun | Forecourt of the Royal Bank of Scotland, St Andrew Square 55.9545°N 3.1917°W |
1834 | Thomas Campbell | Sculptural group (with horse) | Bronze group and pedestal on granite plinth | Category A-listed | Designed in 1829 as centrepiece for Charlotte Square but erected in 1834 at Dundas House | |
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Monument to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville | St Andrew Square 55.9542°N 3.1932°W |
1817–23 (column) 1822–7 (statue) | Robert Forrest after Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey | Statue on Doric column | Bronze statue on cream sandstone column | Category A-listed | Architect: William Burn[20] | |
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George IV | Junction of George Street and Hanover Street 55.9535°N 3.1973°W |
1825–31 | Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey | Statue | Bronze statue on ashlar pedestal | Category A-listed | Unveiled 26 November 1831. Commemorates George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822.[21] | |
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William Pitt the Younger | Junction of George Street and Frederick Street 55.953°N 3.2004°W |
1831–3 | Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey | Statue | Bronze statue on ashlar pedestal | Category A-listed | ||
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Memorial to Albert, Prince Consort | Charlotte Square 55.9518°N 3.2077°W |
1862–76 | Sir John Steell et al. | Equestrian statue with other sculptures | Bronze (statues and reliefs); Peterhead granite (pedestal) | Category A-listed | Architect: David Bryce. | |
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Monument to Catherine Sinclair | Corner of North Charlotte Street / St Colme Street 55.9532°N 3.2076°W |
1866–8 | John Rhind | Gothic monument, Eleanor cross type | Cream sandstone | Category A-listed | Architect: David Bryce.[22] | |
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Thomas Chalmers | Junction of George Street and Castle Street 55.9525°N 3.2035°W |
1869–78 | Sir John Steell | Statue | Bronze statue on polished red granite pedestal | Category A-listed | ||
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King's Own Scottish Borderers Memorial | North Bridge 55.9517°N 3.1881°W |
1906 | William Birnie Rhind | Sculptural group | Stone | Category A-listed | ||
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The Manuscript of Monte Cassino | Picardy Place | 1991 | Eduardo Paolozzi | Three part sculpture | Bronze | — |
Outside St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral[23] | |
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Memorial to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Picardy Place 55.956837°N 3.18675°W |
1991 | Gerald Ogilvie Laing | Statue (of Sherlock Holmes) | Bronze statue on ashlar pedestal | — |
Erected by the Federation of Master Builders to mark its 50th anniversary. | |
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Horse~Rider~Eagle | Silvermills 55.959410°N 3.204204°W |
1996 | Eoghan Bridge | Equestrian statue | Bronze | — |
Commission by Cala Homes for housing development, ceremoniously opened by the actor, Robert Hardy in April 1997. | |
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Dreaming Spires | outside the Omni Centre, Greenside Place, Leith Walk 55.956344°N 3.186225°W |
2005 | Helen Denerley | Statues of giraffes | Recycled metal, painted | — |
Unveiled 27 July 2005 by Julian Spalding.[24] Includes quotation from the South African poet Roy Campbell at its base. | |
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Lion of Scotland | St Andrew Square 55.954623°N 3.193084°W |
2006 | Ronald Rae | Sculpture | Pink Corrennie granite | — |
Originally sited in Holyrood Park; moved to current location in 2010.[25] | |
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James Clerk Maxwell | George Street 55.954053°N 3.194381°W |
2006–8 | Alexander Stoddart | Statue | Bronze statue and reliefs on ashlar pedestal | — |
Unveiled 25 November 2008.[26] |
Niddrie
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gulliver in Edinburgh | Jimmy Boyle | Land art | Demolished in 2011 to make way for flood defences |
Old Town
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Charles II | Parliament Square 55.9492°N 3.1905°W |
1685 | The workshop of Grinling Gibbons | Equestrian statue | Lead statue on ashlar pedestal | Category A-listed | The pedestal is an 1835 replica of Robert Mylne's original.[27] | |
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Alexander and Bucephalus | Courtyard of City Chambers, High Street 55.9501°N 3.1903°W |
1829–33. Cast 1883. | Sir John Steell | Sculptural group | Bronze group on ashlar pedestal | Category A-listed | Unveiled 18 April 1884. Moved from St Andrew Square 1916[28] | |
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Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany | Edinburgh Castle Esplanade 55.9489°N 3.1979°W |
1837 | Thomas Campbell | Statue | Bronze (statue and pedestal) | Category B-listed. Part of Esplanade Category A-listed group. | [29] | |
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78th Highlanders Memorial | Edinburgh Castle Esplanade 55.9490°N 3.1969°W |
1861 | Carver – S. Hunter Masonic work – Messrs Sutherland | Celtic cross | Dark stone | Category B-listed. Part of Esplanade Category A-listed group. | Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (architect)[30] | |
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Greyfriars Bobby Fountain | George IV Bridge, near Greyfriars Kirk 55.9469°N 3.1913°W |
1873 | William Brodie | Drinking fountain with statuette | Bronze (statuette and plaques); red granite (plinth and basins) | Category A-listed | [31] | |
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Monument to Colonel Douglas Mackenzie | Edinburgh Castle Esplanade 55.9489°N 3.1974°W |
1875 | Sir John Steell | Celtic cross | Dark stone cross on rubble plinth with red granite plaque | Category B-listed. Part of Esplanade Category A-listed group. | [32] | |
| 72nd Highlanders Memorial | Edinburgh Castle Esplanade 55.9489°N 3.1981°W |
1882–3 | MacDonald, Field & Co. | Obelisk | Pink Peterhead granite and bronze | Category C(S)-listed. Part of Esplanade Category A-listed group. | [33] | ||
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Queensberry Memorial to Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch | West Parliament Square 55.9495°N 3.1917°W |
1885–8 | Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm | Statue | Bronze statue on hexagonal stone pedestal with three tiers of bronze decoration | Category A-listed | Architect: Sir Robert Rowand Anderson[34] | |
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William Chambers | Chambers Street 55.94738°N 3.18979°W |
1888–91 | John Rhind or William Birnie Rhind | Statue | Bronze (statue and reliefs), red sandstone (pedestal) | Category B-listed | Architect: Hippolyte Blanc[35] | |
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Witches' Well | Castlehill 55.94890°N 3.19643°W |
1894 | John Duncan | Memorial drinking fountain with plaque | Bronze ? | Memorial to accused witches executed nearby | ||
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John Knox | New College Quadrangle 55.9496°N 3.1951°W |
1896 | John Hutchison | Statue | Bronze (statue), red sandstone (pedestal) | Category C(S)-listed | [36] | |
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Scottish Horse Boer War Memorial | Edinburgh Castle Esplanade 55.9489°N 3.1974°W |
1905–10 | Stewart McGlashan and Son | Celtic cross | Pink granite | Category C(S)-listed. Part of Esplanade Category A-listed group. | [37] | |
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Black Watch Boer War Memorial | The Mound, corner of Market Street and North Bank Street 55.9501°N 3.1945°W |
1908–10 | William Birnie Rhind | Statue | Bronze (statue and relief), red granite (pedestal) | Category A-listed | [38] | |
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King Edward VII | Holyrood Palace forecourt 55.9529°N 3.1736°W |
1922 | Henry Snell Gamley | Statue | Bronze statue on stone pedestal | Part of Category A-listed group | [39][40] | |
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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | Hospital Square, Edinburgh Castle 55.948862°N 3.201779°W |
1923 | George Edward Wade | Equestrian statue | Bronze statue on rubble stone plinth | Category B-listed | Moved from Castle Esplanade 2011 | |
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Robert the Bruce | Edinburgh Castle Gatehouse 55.948551°N 3.198598°W |
1929 | Thomas John Clapperton | Statue in niche | Bronze | Category A-listed (with gatehouse) | Erected to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Bruce's death. Architect of the niche: Sir Robert Lorimer.[41] | |
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William Wallace | Edinburgh Castle Gatehouse 55.948577°N 3.198598°W |
1929 | Alexander Carrick | Statue in niche | Bronze | Category A-listed (with gatehouse) | Architect of the niche: Sir Robert Lorimer | |
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Covenanters’ Memorial | Grassmarket 55.947827°N 3.194772°W |
1937 | Raised circle in pavement | Red and grey granite setts | Category C(S)-listed | [42] | ||
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David Hume | Outside Court House, Lawnmarket, Royal Mile 55.94956°N 3.192625°W |
1995–7 | Alexander Stoddart | Statue | Bronze | — |
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Memorial to Susannah Alice Stephen | James’ Court, off Lawnmarket (Royal Mile) 55.949548°N 3.19422°W |
2000 | Frances Pelly | Sculpture on stepped plinth | Bronze | — |
[43] | |
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Adam Smith | outside St Giles' Cathedral 55.949764°N 3.190069°W |
2003–8 | Alexander Stoddart | Statue | Bronze | — |
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Robert Fergusson | outside the Kirk of the Canongate 55.951574°N 3.179363°W |
2004 | David Annand | Statue | Bronze | — |
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James Braidwood | Parliament Square 55.949495°N 3.190013°W |
2006–8 | Kenny Mackay | Statue | Bronze | — |
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Work No. 1059 | The Scotsman Steps 55.951215°N 3.188660°W |
2011 | Martin Creed | Installation | Marble | — |
Commissioned by The Fruitmarket Gallery[44] | |
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William Henry Playfair | Chambers Street 55.94757°N 3.18893°W |
2016 | Alexander Stoddart | Statue | Bronze | — |
Portobello
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Coade Stone Pillars | Portobello Promenade |
Princes Street
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Sir Walter Scott | Scott Monument, East Princes Street Gardens 55.952399°N 3.193304°W |
1848 (installed) | Sir John Steell | Statue | Carrara marble | Category A-listed | Architect: George Meikle Kemp.[45] | |
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | General Register House, Princes Street 55.9535°N 3.1892°W |
1848–52 | Sir John Steell | Equestrian statue | Bronze (statue); red Aberdeen granite (pedestal) | Category A-listed | Architects: David Bryce and James Gowans.[46] | |
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Allan Ramsay | West Princes Street Gardens 55.9517°N 3.1973°W |
1850 | Sir John Steell | Statue | Carrara marble | Category A-listed | Architect: David Bryce (1865).[47] | |
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The genius of architecture crowning the theory and practice of art | West Princes Street Gardens 55.9510°N 3.1983°W |
1862 | William Brodie | Sculptural group | Marble | Category B-listed | ||
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Ross Fountain | West Princes Street Gardens 55.95005°N 3.202994°W |
1862–72 | Jean-Baptiste Klagmann | Fountain with sculptures | Gilt cast iron | Category A-listed | Architects: Peddie and Kinnear[48] | |
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John Wilson | East Princes Street Gardens 55.9521°N 3.1951°W |
1863–5 | Sir John Steell | Statue | Bronze statue on ashlar plinth | Category A-listed | Architect: David Bryce.[49] | |
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David Livingstone | East Princes Street Gardens 55.9525°N 3.1927°W |
1875–6 | Amelia Robertson Hill | Statue | Bronze statue on stone plinth | Category A-listed | ||
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Adam Black | East Princes Street Gardens 55.9522°N 3.1944°W |
1876–7 | John Hutchison | Statue | Bronze | Category A-listed | ||
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Sir James Young Simpson | West Princes Street Gardens 55.9504°N 3.2050°W |
1877 | William Brodie | Statue | Bronze | Category B-listed | ||
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Memorial to Dean Edward Bannerman Ramsay | West Princes Street Gardens, behind the church of St John the Evangelist 55.950264°N 3.205931°W |
1877–9 | Robert Rowand Anderson (architect) | Celtic cross | Granite with bronze reliefs | Category A-listed (with church) | ||
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Royal Scots Greys Memorial | West Princes Street Gardens 55.9514°N 3.1994°W |
1906 | William Birnie Rhind | Equestrian statue | Bronze statue on rock plinth | Category B-listed | Unveiled 16 November 1906 by the Earl of Rosebery.[50] | |
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Thomas Guthrie | West Princes Street Gardens 55.9508°N 3.2026°W |
1907–10 | Frederick William Pomeroy | Statue | Portland stone statue and pedestal | Category B-listed | ||
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Scots American War Memorial | West Princes Street Gardens 55.950556°N 3.201944°W |
1923–7 | Robert Tait McKenzie | Screen with relief and statue in front | Stone (screen and pedestal), bronze (reliefs and statue) | Category B-listed | Unveiled 7 September 1927. Architect: Reginald Fairlie.[51] | |
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Royal Scots Memorial | West Princes Street Gardens 55.9511°N 3.1973°W |
1948–52 | Sir Frank Charles Mears et al. | Enclosure of standing stones | Stone with bronze plaques | Category B-listed | Unveiled 26 July 1952 by Princess Mary, Colonel in Chief of the Regiment.[52] | |
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Norwegian War Memorial | West Princes Street Gardens | 1978 | Commemorative stone mounted on three smaller stones | — |
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Memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson | West Princes Street Gardens 55.9500°N 3.2023°W |
1987–9 | Ian Hamilton Finlay | Standing stone set in a grove of birch trees | Flagstone | — |
Unveiled 14 July 1989 by Dame Muriel Spark.[53] | |
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Spanish Brigade Memorial | East Princes Street Gardens | 1988 | Commemorative stone | — |
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Bum the Dog (of San Diego) | West Princes Street Gardens, King's Stables Road Entrance 55.948417°N 3.203388°W |
2008 | Jessica McCain | Statue | Bronze | — |
Presented by the San Diego-Edinburgh Sister City Society | |
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Wojtek (Voytek), the Soldier Bear | West Princes Street Gardens 55.950833°N 3.202028°W |
2015 | Alan Herriot | Sculptural group | Bronze on granite base | — |
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Lulla-Bye (Children’s Memorial) | West Princes Street Gardens 55.950939°N 3.198579°W |
2019 | Andy Scott | Sculpture | Bronze | 8ft (2.4m) | — |
Cast by Powderhall Bronze
Gifted by the City of Edinburgh Council |
Riccarton
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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James Watt | Heriot Watt Campus 55.90930°N 3.32003°W |
1854 | Peter Slater | Statue | Bronze | Copy of statue by Sir Francis Chantrey. Moved from Chambers Street, Edinburgh |
South Gyle
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Wealth of Nations | Redheughs Avenue | 1993 | Eduardo Paolozzi | Sculpture | Cast metal | Features quotation from Albert Einstein | ||
| Pigeon | South Gyle Crescent | Statue | Cast metal | ||||||
| Seagull | South Gyle Crescent | Sculpture | Cast metal | ||||||
| Bird | South Gyle Crescent | Sculpture | Cast metal | ||||||
| Concrete Jungle | Gyle Centre | 1994 | Alan Watson | Sculpture | Concrete | ||||
| Stacked Shades | Gyle Centre | 1994 | Marion Smith | Sculpture | |||||
| Figure in a Landscape | Gyle Centre | 1994 | Sylvia Stewart | Sculpture | Information plaque missing | ||||
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Veil | Gyle Centre | 1994 | Jake Kempsall | Sculpture | ||||
| Fossil Tree | Gyle Centre | 1994 | Bill Scott | Sculpture | |||||
| Figure in a Landscape | Gyle Centre | 1990s | Ian Hamilton Finlay | Sculpture | Arcade of pillars | ||||
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Scottish Writers | Edinburgh Park | 1990s | various | Herms | 12 herms of Scottish poets |
Southside
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Middle Meadow Walk Gatepiers | Lauriston Place 55.9453°N 3.1911°W |
1840s | Pillars – George Smith Unicorns – Alexander Handyside Ritchie | Pair of octagonal gatepiers (pillars) surmounted by unicorns | Stone | Category B-listed | [54] | |
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Melville Drive (east end) Ornamental Pillars | Melville Drive (east end) 55.9403°N 3.1833°W |
1880 | John Lessels | Pair of square pillars surmounted by heraldic beasts – lion on N, unicorn on S | Polished ashlar | Category B-listed | Presented to the City by the printing and publishing firm of Thomas Nelson and Sons.[55] | |
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Memorial to Archbishop Archibald Tait | Old Medical School, Teviot Place 55.944818°N 3.19043°W |
1884–5 | Mario Raggi | Bust in columned niche | Bronze | Category A-listed (with Old Medical School) | Unveiled 27 February 1885. Marks the site of Tait′s birthplace.[56] | |
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Brass Founders' Pillar | Nicolson Square 55.9460°N 3.1854°W |
1886 | Sir James Gowans designed column. John Stevenson Rhind sculptor of statuette | Statuette on pillar | Bronze statuette and column on granite base | Category B-listed | Commissioned for the Edinburgh International Exhibition of 1886[57] where it won a gold medal | |
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Masons’ Pillars | Melville Drive (west end) 55.9420°N 3.2003°W |
1886 | Sir James Gowans | Pair of octagonal pillars, surmounted by unicorns | Stone (from 17 different quarries) | Category B-listed. Part of B group with Sundial | Erected by the Master Builders and Operative Masons of Edinburgh and Leith as a permanent memento of the Edinburgh International Exhibition.[58] | |
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Prince Albert Victor Sundial | West Meadows Park 55.9418°N 3.1988°W |
1886 | Sir James Gowans | Sundial. Octagonal shaft with bronze armillary sphere | Stone (from 10 different quarries) | Category B-listed. Part of B group with Masons' Pillars | Erected in commemoration of the opening of the Edinburgh International Exhibition on 6 May 1886 by Prince Albert Victor.[59] | |
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McEwan Lantern Pillar | Bristo Square 55.945346°N 3.188812°W |
c. 1890 | Robert Rowand Anderson (architect) | Tapering tower with relief carving and lamp | Portland stone and cast iron | Category B-listed. Part of A group with McEwan Hall | [60] | |
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Rhinoceros head Jim Haynes |
Informatics Forum, Charles Street | 2012 (unveiled) | William Darrell | Architectural sculpture | Bronze | — |
[61] | |
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The Haynes Nano-stage Jim Haynes |
Informatics Forum, corner of Crichton Street and Charles Street | 2012 (unveiled) | David Forsyth | Sculpture | Stainless steel | — |
[61] | |
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Egeria | Originally outside the Michael Swann building; now outside Murray library at King's Buildings Campus 55.921773°N 3.1717604°W |
12 March 1997 (unveiled) | Eduardo Paolozzi | Sculpture | Bronze | — |
[62] Statues removed in March 2017 from the Swann building. Relocated, following conservation, in May 2017 to Murray library at King's Buildings.[63] | |
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Parthenope | Outside Murray library at King's Buildings Campus 55.921773°N 3.1717604°W |
12 March 1997 (unveiled) | Eduardo Paolozzi | Sculpture | Bronze | — |
[62][63] | |
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Statue of David Brewster | Opposite Joseph Black building, at King's Buildings Campus 55.921773°N 3.1717604°W |
1877 | William Brodie | Sculpture | 55.9242226°N 3.1762067°W | — |
[64] |
Trinity
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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King Edward VII | Victoria Park, Newhaven Road 55.9752°N 3.1910°W |
1914 | John Stevenson Rhind | Statue | Bronze statue. Stone pedestal | Category B-listed | Erected by Leith Town Council [65] |
West End
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville | Melville Crescent 55.9497°N 3.2139°W |
1857 | Sir John Steell | Statue | Bronze statue on sandstone pedestal | Category A-listed | ||
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Memorial to William Ewart Gladstone | Coates Crescent Gardens 55.9485°N 3.2123°W |
1902–16 | James Pittendrigh Macgillivray | Statue with other sculptures | Bronze statues on granite pedestals | Category A-listed | Unveiled 18 January 1917 at St Andrew Square by the Earl of Rosebery. Moved to this, its original intended location, in 1955.[66] | |
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Woman and Child | Festival Square, Lothian Road 55.9469°N 3.2062°W |
1985–6 | Anne Davidson | Sculptural group | Bronze | — |
Unveiled 22 July 1986 by Suganya Chetty.[67] | |
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First Conundrum | Festival Square, Lothian Road 55.947049°N 3.206943°W |
Remco de Fouw | Sculptural group | Stone | — |
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Horse & Rider | Rutland Court 55.948145°N 3.208686°W |
1993 | Eoghan Bridge | Equestrian statue | Bronze | — |
Commission by Baillie Gifford as part of Percent for art scheme |
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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La Vierge d'Alsace (The Virgin of Alsace) |
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two | 1919–21 | Antoine Bourdelle | Statue | Bronze | — |
[68] | |
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Reclining Figure | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One | 1951 | Henry Moore | Sculpture | Bronze (sculpture and pedestal) | — |
[69] | |
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Master of the Universe | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two | 1989 | Eduardo Paolozzi | Sculpture | Bronze | — |
[70] | |
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Landform | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One | 2001 | Charles Jencks | Land art | — |
[71] | ||
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Macduff Circle | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two | 2002 | Richard Long | Land art | Slate | — |
[72] | |
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6 Times (1st figure) |
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One | 2010 | Antony Gormley | Statue | — |
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