Latitude: 55.8756 / 55°52'32"N
Longitude: -4.2331 / 4°13'59"W
OS Eastings: 260383
OS Northings: 666970
OS Grid: NS603669
Mapcode National: GBR 0QF.YH
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.YLD1
Plus Code: 9C7QVQG8+6P
Entry Name: Lodge And Gatepiers, Sighthill Cemetery, 225 Springburn Road, Glasgow
Listing Name: 201 Springburn Road, Sighthill Cemetery, Including Lodge and Gatepiers and Gateway at Keppochill Road
Listing Date: 15 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 377439
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33623
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 225 Springburn Road, Sighthill Cemetery, Lodge And Gatepiers
ID on this website: 200377439
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Dennistoun
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Chapel Architectural structure
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.
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