A plaque to George Meikle Kemp at Galashiels
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A plaque to George Meikle Kemp at Galashiels
Image: © Walter Baxter Taken: 5 Jun 2010
This plaque, on the northeast gable wall of a building at Roxburgh Street Image], is dedicated to George Meikle Kemp who designed the Scott Monument in Edinburgh Image The inscription reads:- GEORGE MEIKLE KEMP ARCHITECT OF THE SCOTT MONUMENT, EDINBURGH, WORKED IN THE CARPENTER’S SHOP IN THIS COURT. WALKING FROM EDDLESTON, WHERE HE SERVED HIS APPRENTICESHIP, A KINDLY GENTLEMAN OVERTOOK THE LAD, AND DROVE HIM TO GALASHIELS. THE GENTLEMAN WAS WALTER SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD. WHILE IN GALASHIELS, KEMP STUDIED THE GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE OF MELROSE ABBEY, AND LIVED TO DESIGN AND ERECT THE MINSTREL’S MONUMENT, IN THE CITY OF HIS BIRTH. ERECTED BY THE ABBOTSFORD SCOTT FELLOWSHIP 1935
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