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Latitude: 55.9248 / 55°55'29"N
Longitude: -3.1817 / 3°10'54"W
OS Eastings: 326252
OS Northings: 670824
OS Grid: NT262708
Mapcode National: GBR 8RR.0L
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.3B5T
Plus Code: 9C7RWRF9+W8
Entry Name: Harrison Memorial Arch, Observatory Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Observatory Road, Harrison Arch
Listing Date: 19 March 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371623
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30584
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200371623
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Arch
A G Sydney Mitchell, 1888. Red polished ashlar triumphal arch commemorating George Harrison. Central keystoned and voussoired arch spanning road; smaller pedestrian arches to outer left and right; base course; dividing cornice over pedestrian arches; channelled stonework above; blinded balustrades to left and right of pediments.
NE ELEVATION: corniced pedestals to 4 engaged Ionic columns flanking arches; commemorative inscriptions inset above pedestrian arches; full entablature with Latin inscription in frieze (see notes); broken pediment over central archway with inset bronze roundel of Harrison.
SW ELEVATION: central pedimented archway slightly advanced; simplified entablature.
Inscriptions read: 'This arch is erected 18th Sept 1888 to commemorate the work & character of George Harrison Kt, MP, Lld, whose life was devoted to the public good. Born 1812. Died 1885. Blackford Hill was acquired & opened to the public by the Corporation of the City of Edinburgh 1884. The Right Honourable Sir George Harrison Lld, Lord Provost; In communem municipi rem diligentia in singulos municipes benignitas in omnes homines iustitia et fides'.
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