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Old Photograph Necropolis Glasgow Scotland
Old photograph of the Necropolis in Glasgow, Scotland. The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery located on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral. Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. Typically for the period only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every grave has a stone. Approximately 3500 monuments exist here. The planning of the cemetery began formally by the Merchants' House of Glasgow in 1831, and Glasgow Necropolis officially opened in April 1833. Predating the cemetery, the statue of John Knox sitting on a column at the top of the hill, dates from 1825. Alexander Thomson designed a number of its tombs, and John Bryce and David Hamilton designed other architecture for the grounds.
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