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Latitude: 55.4266 / 55°25'35"N
Longitude: -4.6365 / 4°38'11"W
OS Eastings: 233253
OS Northings: 617909
OS Grid: NS332179
Mapcode National: GBR 49.00QZ
Mapcode Global: WH2PW.RVBR
Plus Code: 9C7QC9G7+M9
Entry Name: Statue House, Burns Monument, Alloway, Ayr
Listing Name: Alloway, Burns Monument, Statue House
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 356759
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21478
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Ayr, Alloway, Burns Monument, Statue House
ID on this website: 200356759
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Ayr
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Monument
The Southwest (Entrance) Elevation has an advanced central bargeboarded porch and recessed 2-leaf timber door. All other elevations have no openings. Octagonal pyramidal slate roof with lead ridges; finials; rooflights.
INTERIOR: statues of Nanse Tunnock, Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnnie by James Thom, carved from local stone. Plain cornice moulding to ceiling.
Important for its siting, adjacent to the Burns Monument (see separate list description). Modern toilets to rear. The sculptor James Thom was apprenticed to a builder in Kilmarnock and employed in ornamental carving as a boy. In 1827 he executed a statue of Burns and meeting wide praise, undertook more ambitious work. Before the Statue House was built the two statues now within it were fixed one on either side of the Burns Monument. Prior to this they were exhibited in Edinubrgh, Glasgow, London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Dublin and Belfast. On showing in London in 1829, his work was hailed as "... inaugurating a new era in sculpture" (Gunnis).
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