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Latitude: 55.8437 / 55°50'37"N
Longitude: -4.4425 / 4°26'33"W
OS Eastings: 247160
OS Northings: 663858
OS Grid: NS471638
Mapcode National: GBR 3J.4Z1S
Mapcode Global: WH3P5.QDP1
Plus Code: 9C7QRHV4+FX
Entry Name: Martyrs Monument, Woodside Cemetery, Broomlands Street, Paisley
Listing Name: Broomlands Street, Woodside Cemetery, Martyr's Monument (1 of 2)
Listing Date: 8 July 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389976
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43485
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389976
Location: Paisley
County: Renfrewshire
Town: Paisley
Electoral Ward: Paisley Northwest
Traditional County: Renfrewshire
Tagged with: Monument
James Drummond, architect, Matthew Gemmell, sculptor, 1835. Circa 3m high Stevenston sandstone ashlar obelisk on plinth. Obelisk with stop-chamfered arrises. Plinth with consoled canted corners and convex sided base and cornice. Very bad spalling patched with cement. Granite plaque restating lost inscription circa 1975.
The monument stands next to the Martyr's Church in the cemetery, and marks the burial place of the James Algie and John Park, who 'suffered at the Cross of Paisley for refusing the Oath of Abjuration,
February 3 1685'.
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