List of Robert Burns memorials

List of Robert Burns memorials

This a list of memorials to the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

cotland

* Burns National Memorial, Mauchline, Ayrshire - [http://www.klickthis.com/gallery-architecture-scotland-medium-142.html Photo]
* statue on Irvine Moor, Irvine, Ayrshire
* statue in Burns Statue Square, Ayr, Ayrshire - [http://www.klickthis.com/gallery-architecture-scotland-medium-258.html Photo]
* Burns Monument in Kay Park, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland - [http://www.klickthis.com/gallery-architecture-scotland-medium-174.html Photo 1984] , [http://www.klickthis.com/gallery-architecture-scotland-medium-173.html Photo 2004 after the arson attack.]
* statue outside Burns Mall, Kilmarnock - [http://www.klickthis.com/gallery-architecture-scotland-medium-226.html Photo]
* monument in Alloway, Ayrshire, a short distance from his birthplace - [http://www.klickthis.com/gallery-architecture-scotland-medium-277.html Photo]
* statue in the Fountain Gardens, Paisley by F. W. Pomeroy (see www.rescuerabbie.com)
* statue in the grounds of Arbroath Library, Arbroath
* statue in Meadowside, Dundee
* statue in Dumfries
* mausoleum/burial site at St Michaels Churchyard,Dumfries
* Burns Monument in Regent Road, south of Calton Hill, Edinburgh
* inscription in Makars' Court, outside The Writers' Museum in Edinburgh's Old Town
* statue on Bernard Street, Leith
* statue in George Square, Glasgow, 1877 by George Edwin Ewing, reliefs by J A Ewing, cast by Cox and Son
* statue near Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen
* Burns Bicentennial Memorial, erected by the local Burns Club in Prestonpans
* Burns Statue outside Albert Halls in Stirling

England

* statue in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London (1884)

New Zealand

* statue in The Octagon, Dunedin
* statue in Timaru Botanic Gardens, Timaru

Canada

* statue in Dominion Square in Montreal
* statue in Allan Gardens, Toronto
* statue in Windsor, Ontario
* statue in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia [http://www.indospectrum.com/photo/cd040_27aug04_robert_burns Photo]
* statue in the grounds of the Hotel Macdonald, Edmonton, Alberta
* statue in the grounds of the Provincial Legislature, Winnipeg, Manitoba
* statue on the Green, across from the Provincial Leglislature, Fredericton, New Brunswick
* statue in Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, British Columbia
* statue in Halifax, Nova Scotia, across from the Public Gardens on Spring Garden Road

United States

* statue in front of the old Spaulding High School building in Barre, Vermont
* statue in Central Park, New York City
* statue in Washington Park, Albany, New York
* statue in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
* statue at Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* statue in Robert Burns Park, Quincy, Massachusetts
* statue in Detroit, Michigan
* statue on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
* statue in Confederate Park, Jacksonville, Florida
* bust in Hermann Park, Houston, Texas

Australia

* statue of Burns with plough, outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney
* statue in Canberra (1935), outside the eponymous Burns Centre, National Circuit, Forrest
* statue outside the State Library of South Australia in Adelaide
* statue at Centenary Place in Brisbane - [http://lambcutlet.org/albums/Brisbane/A_statue_of_Scotlands_Immortal_Bard_otherwise_know_as_Robert_Burns_at_Centenary_Place_in_Brisbane.jpgPhoto]
* statue in Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, with bronze friezes of pastoral life decorating the plinth


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