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Glasgow Necropolis : Scottish City Graveyard
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post updated 21 December 2021
Necropolis Glasgow
Glasgow Necropolis – John Knox Statue: Doric column
Date built: 1825
Architect: Thomas Hamilton
Glasgow Necropolis
Photographs from 1968 visit by Norwegian architecture student Dag Nilsen:
The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral (St. Mungo’s Cathedral). Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here.
Typical for the period, only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every grave has a stone. Approximately 3,500 monuments exist here.
Predating the cemetery, the statue of John Knox sitting on a column at the top of the hill, dates from 1825. The first burials were in 1832 in the extreme north-east on the lowest ground and were exclusively for Jewish burials.
Alexander Thomson designed a number of its tombs, and John Bryce and David Hamilton designed other architecture for the grounds.
Glasgow Necropolis Photos from 10 Feb 2011
Thomas Hamilton (1784 – 1858) was born in Glasgow. Most of his buildings were located in the Scottish capital. He was based in Edinburgh where he designed many of that city’s prominent buildings.
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Glasgow Architecture
Major Strathclyde Building Designs – selection:
Glasgow Cathedral
photo © Adrian Welch
Glasgow Museum of Religion
photo © Adrian Welch
Restoration project adjacent to St Mungo’s Cathedral by one of Scotland’s key restoration architects.
Another Ancient Scottish graveyard – in the capital:
Calton Old Graveyard
House for an Art Lover
photo © Adrian Welch
Glasgow School of Art
photo © Adrian Welch
Briggait Centre : Nicoll Russell Studios
photo : Andrew Lee
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