The National Wallace Monument (generally known as…

The National Wallace Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) commemorates Sir William Wallace, the thirteenth century-Scottish hero.

The tower had been constructed following a fundraising campaign, which accompanies a resurgence of Scottish national identity in the nineteenth century.

In addition to public subscription, it is partially funded by contributions from a number of foreign donors, including Italian national leader Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Completed in 1869 to the designs of architect John Thomas Rochead at a cost of eighteen thousand pounds, the monument is a sixty-seven-meter- (two hundred and twenty foot-) sandstone tower, built in the Victorian Gothic style.

It stands on the Abbey Craig, a volcanic crag above Cambuskenneth Abbey, from which Wallace was said to have watched the gathering of the army of King Edward I of England, just before the Battle of Stirling Bridge.