Lest we forget....

In the aftermath of World War 1, every town and village in the country set about thinking of commemoration.   Peebles being Peebles rejected the common response of a statue of a soldier with arms reversed and bowed head.    Instead, in the quiet square behind the Chambers Institute and beside the Borough Hall, the town created a tranquil little garden.  in 1919 the architect, Burnett Orphoot, was commissioned and he designed a very Italianate covered pavilion with architectural references to the Cathedral of Monreale in Palermo.  To maintain the theme, there is a Celtic Cross of Sicilian marble under a light stone canopy or baldachino.