Editing James Watt (section)

==Memorials==
[[File:James Watt Memorial College.jpg|thumb|upright|left|The [[James Watt College|James Watt Memorial College]] in [[Greenock]]]]

Watt was buried in the grounds of [[St. Mary's Church, Handsworth]], in Birmingham. Later expansion of the church, over his grave, means that his tomb is now buried ''inside'' the church.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kelly|first=E. R.|title=The Post Office Directory of Birmingham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dO8NAAAAQAAJ&q=%22james%20watt%22%20buried%20handsworth%20chapel&pg=PA176|year=1878|publisher=Kelly and co.|location=London|page=176}}</ref>

The [[attic|garret]] room workshop that Watt used in his retirement was left, locked and untouched, until 1853, when it was first viewed by his biographer [[James Patrick Muirhead|J. P. Muirhead]]. Thereafter, it was occasionally visited, but left untouched, as a kind of shrine. A proposal to have it transferred to the [[Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom)|Patent Office]] came to nothing. When the house was due to be demolished in 1924, the room and all its contents were presented to the [[Science Museum (London)|Science Museum]], where it was recreated in its entirety.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/the_age_of_the_engineer/03.ST.03/?scene=5&tv=true |title=Garret workshop of James Watt |publisher=Makingthemodernworld.org.uk |access-date=12 March 2011}}</ref> It remained on display for visitors for many years, but was walled-off when the gallery it was housed in closed. The workshop remained intact, and preserved, and in March 2011 was put on public display as part of a new permanent Science Museum exhibition, "James Watt and our world".<ref>{{cite web |title=James Watt's legendary 'magical retreat' to be revealed at Science Museum |url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/press_and_media/press_releases/2011/03/watt.aspx |work=(Press Release) |publisher=[[Science Museum (London)|Science Museum]] |access-date=25 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317132223/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/press_and_media/press_releases/2011/03/watt.aspx |archive-date=17 March 2011 |date=1 March 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The approximate location of James Watt's birth in Greenock is commemorated by a statue. Other memorials in Greenock include street names and the Watt Memorial Library, which was begun in 1816 with Watt's donation of scientific books, and developed as part of the Watt Institution by his son (which ultimately became the [[James Watt College]]). Taken over by the local authority in 1974, the library now also houses the local history collection and archives of [[Inverclyde]], and is dominated by a large seated statue in the [[Vestibule (architecture)|vestibule]]. Watt is additionally commemorated by statuary in [[George Square]], Glasgow and [[Princes Street]], Edinburgh, as well as others in [[Birmingham]], where he is also remembered by the [[Lunar Society Moonstones|Moonstones]] and a school is named in his honour.

The James Watt College has expanded from its original location to include campuses in [[Kilwinning]] (North Ayrshire), Finnart Street and The Waterfront in Greenock, and the Sports campus in [[Largs]]. [[Heriot-Watt University]] near [[Edinburgh]] was at one time the School of Arts of Edinburgh, founded in 1821 as the world's first [[Mechanics Institute]], but to commemorate George Heriot, the 16th-century financier to [[James VI and I|King James VI and I]], and James Watt, after [[Royal charter|Royal Charter]] the name was changed to Heriot-Watt University. Dozens of university and college buildings (chiefly of science and technology) are named after him. Matthew Boulton's home, [[Soho House]], is now a museum, commemorating the work of both men. The [[University of Glasgow]]'s Faculty of Engineering has its headquarters in the James Watt Building, which also houses the department of Mechanical Engineering and the department of Aerospace Engineering. The huge painting ''James Watt contemplating the steam engine'' by [[James Eckford Lauder]] is now owned by the [[National Gallery of Scotland]].

[[File:Watt James Chantrey.jpg|thumb|right|[[Francis Legatt Chantrey|Chantrey]]'s statue of James Watt]]

There is a statue of James Watt in [[Piccadilly Gardens]], Manchester and [[City Square, Leeds]].

A colossal statue of Watt by [[Francis Legatt Chantrey]] was placed in [[Westminster Abbey]],<ref>Hall, A. R. ''The Abbey Scientists'', p. 35: London; Roger & Robert Nicholson; 1966.</ref> and later was moved to [[St. Paul's Cathedral]]. On the [[cenotaph]], the inscription reads, in part, "JAMES WATT ... ENLARGED THE RESOURCES OF HIS COUNTRY, INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN, AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD".

A bust of Watt is in the Hall of Heroes of the [[National Wallace Monument]] in [[Stirling]], Scotland.

The [[French Navy]] [[submarine]] {{ship|French submarine|Watt||2}} was named for Watt.