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Latitude: 55.9497 / 55°56'58"N
Longitude: -3.2139 / 3°12'50"W
OS Eastings: 324288
OS Northings: 673624
OS Grid: NT242736
Mapcode National: GBR 8JG.GP
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.LQR8
Plus Code: 9C7RWQXP+VC
Entry Name: 2Nd Viscount Robert Melville Statue, Melville Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Melville Crescent, 2ND Viscount Melville Monument
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365212
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27866
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Melville Street, 2nd Viscount Robert Melville Statue
ID on this website: 200365212
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Statue
John Steele, 1857. Pedestrian bronze statue of Robert Viscount Melville to centre of Melville Crescent. Large sandstone ashlar plinth. Stepped to base with cornice to top of pedestal. Further plinth over cornice supporting bronze statue. Figure shown leaning on bronze plinth to left, holding scroll in right hand. Bronze inscription to plinth: Robert Viscount Melville, Born 14th March 1771 Died 10th June 1851.
The Melville Statue is a striking bronze on a high plinth that is a key termination to various axis through the former Walker Estate plan, and an excellent example of the work of a prominent sculptor, Sir John Steel. It forms an especially strong link with the Gladstone Memorial in Coates Crescent with which it forms a visual axis down Walker Street. The OS survey of 1852 shows an alternate design for the square with a circular garden to the centre.
Sir John Steel (b. 1804), was one of the foremost sculptors of his day, producing numerous works in Edinburgh, the most prominent of which is the statue of Sir Walter Scott for the Scott Monument on Princes Street (see separate listing), and an equestrian statue of Wellington in Glasgow (see separate listing). In 1844 after sculpting a figure of Queen Victoria he was appointed sculptor to her Majesty in Scotland, and was later knighted in 1876 after the unveiling of an equestrian statue of Prince Albert in Charlotte Sqaure.
(List description revised 2009 as part of re-survey.)
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