The Marshall Monument, now part of Perth Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland

From Wikipedia:

The museum’s location was formerly the site of a late 12th-century motte and bailey castle, built in 1160 to protect the Tay crossing. A great flood in 1209 washed the castle away. The King, William I, was staying in it at the time and had to escape with his wife and entourage by boat to Scone.

The Marshall Monument was designed by David Morison and sculpted by John Cochrane and Brothers.

Construction began in 1822, and it was opened as a library and museum by the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth in 1824. It is one of the United Kingdom’s oldest purpose-built museums, and in 1915 it was gifted to the city by the Society on the condition that it was continued to be used only as a library or museum.

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