Burns Monuments

  Robert Burns is Scotland’s most venerated poet, a man whose popularity is still in the increase two centuries after his verses first appeared. Above other Scottish poets, Burns continues to enjoy the privileged status of national muse, for it was largely through his poetry and songs that Scotland’s cultural identity was restored to life and her language and lore preserved.

There are a lot of Robert Burns monuments across the world. Most of monuments are in his

KILMARNOCK

The Kilmarnock Monument to Burns is situated in a beautiful Kay Park, which covers 30 acre, and was laid out and gifted to Kilmarnock by local insurance broker Alexander Kay. Opened in 1879, the park housed a red sandstone monument to Robert Burns.

The Kilmarnock Monument to Burns is the most pretentious – the most colossal and imposing – of any Burns Memorial. The inauguration of a movement for the erection of a statue to the poet took place in 1877. The

ABERDEEN

The Burns statue on an imposing site in Union Terrace Gardens, was unveiled amid much enthusiasm by professor Masson of Edinburgh, on the 15th September, 1892. It is the work of a local sculptor, Henry Bain Smith, who died the year after its erection, at the early age of 36, just at the beginning, one might say, of what promised to be a brilliant career.

The statue is of bronze, about ten feet high, and stands on a pedestal of white granite, twelve and a half feet high. The only inscription is the one word “BURNS“ on the pedestal.

ALLOWAY

  The monument is located on the north bank of the River Doon, close to the Auld Brig O’Doon, two miles south of Ayr. It is the first monument erected to the memory of Robert Burns, excepting the Mausoleum in Dumfries. Burns monument was built to a Grecian-style design by Thomas Hamilton, an Edinburgh architect. It was opened in 1823. The Monument is a 70-foot high circular temple, with nine pillars representing the nine Muses of Greek mythology, sitting on a three-sided base evoking the three historic divisions of Ayrshire.