Latitude: 55.9521 / 55°57'7"N
Longitude: -3.1951 / 3°11'42"W
OS Eastings: 325471
OS Northings: 673872
OS Grid: NT254738
Mapcode National: GBR 8NF.9V
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WNQF
Plus Code: 9C7RXR23+RX
Entry Name: Professor John Wilson Statue, East Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
Listing Name: East Princes Street Gardens, John Wilson Monument
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 365230
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27881
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Statue of John Wilson, Edinburgh
Edinburgh, East Princes Street Gardens, Professor John Wilson Statue
ID on this website: 200365230
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Statue Architectural structure
Sir John Steell, 1863-5. Plinth by David Bryce. Bronze pedestrian statue with flowing locks and beard, clutching cloak and quill, on corniced ashlar plinth with engaged Corinthian colonnettes.
Memorial to Professor John Wilson, 'Christopher North,' reviewer and essayist for Blackwood's Magazine. Paid for by public subscription raised following Wilson's death in 1854.
Category changed from B to A, 19 December 2002.
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