Craigentinny Marbles
55°57′26″N 3°08′14″W / 55.95710°N 3.13716°W | |
Location | Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Beginning date | 1848 |
Completion date | 1856 |
The Craigentinny Marbles is the mausoleum of William Henry Miller (1789-1848), a wealthy landowner and Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme, who retired to his estate at Craigentinny after losing his parliamentary seat in 1841. Miller was childless, so upon his death in 1848, the execution of his will fell to a distant relative, Samuel Christy. The will contained instructions to bury Miller's body in a 20-foot-deep pit above which, The Scotsman reported, would be built a monument "in commemoration of the private virtues of the deceased, for, as a public character, he was unknown." £20,000 was allocated for construction. Although the monument would originally have been a solitary structure in a moorland half a mile east of Miller's house, it is now somewhat incongruously surrounded by 1930s bungalows on Craigentinny Crescent.[1]
The mausoleum itself was designed by
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References
- ^ Gifford, John (1991). The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh (Pevsner Architectural Guides). Yale University Press. pp. 661–3.
- ^ Graves, Robert Edmund (1890). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 66–7. . In
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "3C Craigentinny Crescent, Craigentinny Marbles (The William Henry Miller Mausoleum) (LB27191)". Retrieved 19 May 2020.