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Latitude: 55.0691 / 55°4'8"N
Longitude: -3.6108 / 3°36'38"W
OS Eastings: 297235
OS Northings: 576149
OS Grid: NX972761
Mapcode National: GBR 397T.2N
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.HVS9
Plus Code: 9C7R399Q+MM
Entry Name: Queensberry Monument, Queensbury Square, Dumfries
Listing Name: English Street, Queensberry Column (In Front of Regional Council Offices)
Listing Date: 11 July 1961
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362695
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26173
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Queensberry Column
Dumfries, Queensbury Square, Queensberry Monument
ID on this website: 200362695
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Monument
Robert Adam, 1780. Memorial column to 3rd Duke of
Queensberry (d.1778). Contracted for by Thomas Boyd
and originally sited in Queensberry Square; re-erected
1934, under supervision of Alexander Crombie, in
forecourt of County Buildings. Tall circular column with
stiff-leafed capital and gilded flambeau urn finial;
raised on square pedestal on stepped base and with
stucco relief on W face, inscription panel to S, ram's
head at angles.
Inscribed "This column, sacred to the memory of Charles,
Duke of Queensberry and Dover, was erected by the county of
Dumfries, as a monument of their veneration for the character
of that illustrious nobleman, whose exalted virtues rendered
him the ornament of society, and whose numerous acts of
public benefice and private charity endeared him to his
country. Ob. 22nd Oct. 1778; Aet. 80".
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