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National Monument, Calton Hill (aka Scotland's Shame)

 
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:30 am    Post subject: National Monument, Calton Hill (aka Scotland's Shame) Reply with quote
National Monument
Location: Calton Hill
OS Ref: NT 263 741

What was supposed to be a copy of the Parthenon on Calton Hill to commemorate all of Scotaland's war dead from 1793-1815 it run out of funds in 1825 after only 12 columns were erected.

After the Great War plans were produced to create a magnificent war memorial for the City of Edinburgh using the National Monument as the basis. Edinburgh would have had the grandest municipal war memorial in the UK if this had been followed through. Instead they have probably one of the most modest. A variation on Lutyen's Stone of Remembrance.





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