Description

Cemetery on hillside site opened 1840; LODGE AND GATEPIERS to Springburn Road by John Stephen (of Scott Stephen and Gale), 1839; Egypto-Greek; all ashlar, lodge is rectangular-plan and elaborately detailed, like a small temple; block-pedimented end faces roadside, pair columns in antis flanking doorway; urn finial; W gable similarly treated but with window; pilastraded flanks; gatepiers are painted, square, each channelled at base with ramped panels to faces, urn finials raised on square pedestals; modern iron gates and railings. Decorative cast-iron gateway to Keppochill Road. Extensive series of stone MONUMENTS, some of high quality; monument to martyrs of 1820 Rising listed separately. Other monuments include; William Leiper, dated 1867, erected by his pupils, French Gothic design and presumably by his son William Leiper also commemorated here; monument to Mossmans, sculpors; Keppie family monument.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17815418

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)