Glasgow Necropolis

Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland.

The area on a hill east of St. Mungo 's Cathedral, part of the former Wester Craigs Estate was acquired in 1650 by the merchant guild Merchants House of Glasgow and initially leased as farmland. Since it is less suitable for this, it was 1777 and 1804, first with fir planted with elms and willows to a park. 1825 a monument to John Knox was built on the hill: a 17.7 -meter-high column with the 4 -meter-high statue of the reformer. 1831 has been proposed to transform the park along the lines of the Paris cemetery Père Lachaise cemetery in a garden. After a competition and public exhibition of the received 16 designs planning the landscape gardener George Mylne was transferred. 1833 acquired Merchants House additional land to build an access from the cathedral creates a bridge over the Molendinar Burn, a tributary of the Clyde, who in 1877 built over the Wishart Street. The ceremonial groundbreaking for the David Hamilton (1768-1843) designed the bridge took place on 18 October 1834. At the completion of 1836, a plaque mounted today at the entrance facade for planned but ultimately unexecuted underground grave vault. In allusion to the Bridge of Sighs in Venice it is called " Bridge of Sighs ".

The first burial in the Necropolis had been in 1832, the jeweler Joseph Levi in the Jewish part. The first Christian burial was 1833 by Elizabeth Miles, the stepmother of George Mylne. Through several extensions 1860-1893 the cemetery doubled its original size to almost 15 hectares. Meanwhile, there have been at least 50,000 burials. Among the 3,500 grave times, descriptions of such important architects and sculptors such as Alexander "Greek" Thomson ( 1817-1875 ), David Hamilton ( 1768-1843 ), John Bryce ( 1805-1831 ) and his brother David Bryce ( 1803-1876 ), Charles Rennie Mackintosh and John Thomas Rochead ( 1814-1878 ). 1966 on left Merchants House the cemetery of the city of Glasgow, which has since been responsible for the operation and maintenance.

Notable grave times and sculptures

From the many notable grave painting and sculpture here is a selection:

  • John Knox by William Warren and Robert Forrest, 1825
  • Mrs. Lockhart, 1842
  • William Motherwell, 1851
  • Houldsworth Mausoleum, 1854
  • Charles Tennant, 1838
  • Walter Macfarlane ( Saracen Foundry ), 1896
  • Blackie publishing ( children's book publisher), family grave, 1910
  • William McGavin by David Bryce, 1834
  • Andrew McCall, 1888
  • Peter Lawrence, 1840
  • Margaret Montgomerie, 1856
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