George Square

Description

Laid out circa 1782 to a plan prepared by James Barry, George Square quickly became a focus of civic buildings and statues, including Robert Matheson's General Post Office (1875), and is home to a clutch of first class monuments - including the homage to Walter Scott, a Greek Doric column (1837). Other statues are to great Scottish men - Robert Burns, James Watt, Doctor Livingstone and Lord Clyde as well as a youthful Queen Victoria - acting as a lonely female figurehead in the Square - a distinction to feminism she would no doubt have shunned!