Glenfinnan Monument
by Gordon James
Title
Glenfinnan Monument
Artist
Gordon James
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Photograph - Photography Digital
Description
The iconic Glenfinnan Monument stands at the head of Loch Shiel, framed by the hills and woods of Moidart, Ardgour and Lochaber. The Monument was erected in 1815 by Alexander MacDonald of Glenaladale as a tribute to the loyal Jacobites who rallied behind Bonnie Prince Charlie in his attempt to regain the British crown for the Stuarts in the 1745 uprising.
Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his Standard (a banner of red and white silk, reputed to have been sewn by the women of nearby Dalilea) at Glenfinnan on 19thAugust 1745 with the loyal support of Highland chiefs and clans of MacDonalds (including Clanranald, Morar and Keppoch) and Camerons of Lochiel and the ‘Seven Men of Moidart’. The raising of the Standard marked support for the declaration of 1743 proclaiming Charles’s father as James VIII as the King of Scotland, England and Ireland and Charles Edward Stuart as his prince regent.
This ceremony took place on a rocky knoll, 300 metres north of the Monument in the hills behind Glenfinnan Church. An inscription carved into the rock marks the spot and is identified by The Flag of Scotland (Saint Andrew’s Cross).
The Monument is built of rubble masonry, circular with a basal diameter of 4 metres and extending to a height of 18.3 metres. Architectural features include a Tudor Gothic doorway, a spiral stairway, narrow slit windows, an external platform and the statue of a Highlander (the latter added in 1830). It was originally enclosed by a low wall, which was later replaced by a more ornate, octagonal faceted perimeter wall. The tower was originally joined to a two-storey bothy ( the ‘shooting box’); this was later removed by Angus MacDonald, the son of the original patron of the Monument during restoration work.
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