page_title: Wallace's Monument, Ayrshire
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Wallace's Monument, Ayrshire / History / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: View East from Wallace's Tower of Craigie Village, South Ayrshire, Scotland
context_page_description: Wallace's Monument, the Wallace Tower, or the Barnweil Monument is a category-A-listed building dedicated to the memory of William Wallace located on Barnweil Hill, a prominent location in the parish of Craigie, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
context_section_description: Robert Snodgrass senior in 1855-7, built a square plan Gothic tower from polished sandstone ashlar blocks, 3-stage, 12 ft (3.7 m) wide at the base, 60 ft (18 m) high, with a pinnacled parapet. Base course; string courses; corbelled, shouldered band course between 2nd and 3rd stages; machicolated, crenellated parapet with thistle-finialled, conical-capped circular angle pinnacles and ball-finialled, ogee-capped square-plan wallhead pinnacles. Diagonally-boarded timber door in Tudor-arched, roll-moulded doorway with hoodmould to the south-east elevation; similar inscription recesses at other elevations. Round-arched recesses at 2nd stage; paired round-arched recesses at 3rd stage.
  The Wallace family coat of arms and their motto 'Pro Libertate Patriae' are located above the entrance, carved by John Logan, a local sculptor.
  A spiral staircase leads up to the viewing platform and the arms of the Wallace family are blazoned in bas-relief above the entrance door.
caption: The view from Barnweil Hill looking south
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