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Post by pwm437 on Jun 4, 2007 8:50:15 GMT 1
The ground here was originally owned by the Merchants House of Glasgow from 1625, and was known as the Fir Park. In 1825 at the summit of Fir Park, a monument to John Knox was built, standing 58ft high, to a design by Thomas Hamilton and William Warren.
In 1832 the land became a cemetery with the first internment taking place, although it was not formally opened until the following year. It is modelled on the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, and is reached by crossing the 'Bridge of Sighs' which spanned the Molendinar Burn.
Many of Glasgow's great and good have their final resting place here.
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Post by tammccann on Jun 19, 2009 16:01:53 GMT 1
William McGavin (1773-1832) was a businessman who became an independent preacher and "controversialist." Nicknamed "The Protestant" he was successfully sued by the Roman Catholic Church in 1821 for libel. He was buried at Wellington Street Chapel but his statue, by the sculptor Robert Forrest (who carved the statue on the Knox Monument), was erected by public subscription in the Necropolis
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Post by tammccann on Jun 19, 2009 16:09:37 GMT 1
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Post by tammccann on Jun 21, 2009 12:28:54 GMT 1
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Post by jawbox on Aug 28, 2010 9:57:09 GMT 1
Tam / Charlie ah jist googled the writing
"Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed." (1 Corinthians 15:50-52).
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