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Description: | When Robert Burns died in 1796, he was buried in a quiet corner of St. Michael's Kirkyard, Dumfries, his grave marked with a plain stone slab. Admirers of his work, seeking to visit his grave had difficulty in finding it.
The sculptor, Peter Turnerelli was commissioned to produce a statue of Burns at the plough with his muse throwing her inspiring mantle over him. On 19th September 1815, Burns' body was exhumed and placed in the mausoleum.
In 1813, his friend, John Syme, launched an appeal to build a mausoleum in his honour. One of the subscribers was the Prince Regent, later George IV. The building was designed by T F Hunt, a London architect. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Dumfries & Galloway Council - Nithsdale Museums | Temporal: | 1815-01-01 - 1815-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Key to Robert Burns' Mausoleum | Go to resource |
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