Latitude: 55.9565 / 55°57'23"N
Longitude: -3.2043 / 3°12'15"W
OS Eastings: 324906
OS Northings: 674379
OS Grid: NT249743
Mapcode National: GBR 8LD.F7
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.RKC0
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ4W+J7
Entry Name: Railings With Gates And Lamps, Royal Circus Gardens, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Royal Circus Gardens, Railings and Gates, Including Lamps
Listing Date: 24 March 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392452
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45520
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Royal Circus Gardens, Railings With Gates And Lamps
ID on this website: 200392452
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Early 19th century, and later. Railings surrounding circular-plan gardens, and adjacent gardens to E and W; predominantly ashlar dwarf walls, broached at central gardens, with saddleback copes, roll-moulded to N and S of central gardens, chamfered flanking thoroughfare, surmounted by cast-iron railings, set diagonally to street, with fleur-de-lis and quasi-Maltese Cross finials; pairs of polygonal posts with pyramidal caps adjoining walls, flanking NW and SE entrances to thoroughfare. Some later rectilinear-patterned railings, with shaped ends to balusters, set in central panels to gardens at E and W; pall stone at NW corner of E garden; ashlar wall to NW of W garden, raised to right of centre; former gate centred at E elevation of W garden, with remains of honeysuckle motif at base. Some cast-iron lamps with glass globes set in copes to W garden.
Part of the Second New Town A Group, representing a significant surviving part of one of the most important and best preserved examples of urban planning in Britain, and the central space serving Royal Circus by William H Playfair, 1821-23.
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