Small statue of a parakeet and garden trug on a plinth

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

IN MEMORY OF SUSANNAH ALICE STEPHEN
KEEP YOUR FACE TOWARDS THE SUN
& THE SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU
1960-1997

Designed by: 
Frances Pelly
Date: 
September 2000
Material: 
stone and bronze
Location:
St James's Court, off north side of Lawnmarket, Royal Mile in the middle of the courtyard
St James's Court, Lawnmarket
Edinburgh, EH1 2PB
Images: 
Statue of Parakeet and Garden Trug on plinth in memory of Susannah Alice Stephen
Statue of Parakeet and Garden Trug on plinth in memory of Susannah Alice Stephen
Statue of Parakeet and Garden Trug on plinth in memory of Susannah Alice Stephen
Statue of Parakeet and Garden Trug on plinth in memory of Susannah Alice Stephen
Statue of Parakeet and Garden Trug on plinth in memory of Susannah Alice Stephen
Statue of Parakeet and Garden Trug on plinth in memory of Susannah Alice Stephen
Additional information: 

'Zannah Stephen loved the closes off the Royal Mile. The site in James Court was appropriate for two reasons: as a landscape architect, she knew that Patrick Geddes, a great town planner and creator of garden spaces, had lived there; the court is overlooked by the room in the Free Church of Scotland building (to the north) containing an etched portrait of her ancestor Alexander Moncrieff of Culfargie, one of the four brethren of the first major secession in the Church of Scotland in 1733. The room also contains the carved wooden chair in which Moncrieff prayed through the night before the signing of the historical document'. (http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/event/613802/)