Scott Monument
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The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana. It stands in
Street view of the Scott Monument
The Monument in 1845, shortly after its completion
A panorama of Edinburgh, seen from the Scott Monument
Detail of the Scott Monument
George Meikle Kemp
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George Meikle Kemp was a self-taught Scottish architect who designed and built the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland. The poorly educated son of a shepherd, showing talents in woodworking as a chi
Scott Monument
…held to design a monument to him. An unlikely entrant went under the pseudonym "John Morvo", the medieval architect of Melrose Abbey. Morvo was in fact George Meikle Kemp, 45 year-old joiner, draftsman, and self-taught architect. He had feared that his lack of architectural qualifications and reputation would disqualify…
Portrait of Kemp by William Bonnar c1840
Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, drawn by George Meikle Kemp, c1830
The Royal Institution, Edinburgh, drawn by Kemp, 1837–1839
Kemp on the building site of the Scott Monument, photographed c. 1843 by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson