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The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral (St. Mungo's Cathedral). Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. [1] Typical for the period, only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every grave has a stone.
In 1849 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert paid an official visit to the cathedral. The Book of Glasgow Cathedral: A History and Description, edited by George Eyre-Todd, is a significant collection of writings from a number of different authors on the history and other aspects of the cathedral which was printed in 1898 by Morison Brothers of 52 ...
St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow; St Andrew's-by-the-Green; St Anne's Church, Glasgow; St Columba's Catholic Church, Glasgow; St Enoch subway station; St George's Tron Church; St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow; St Vincent Street Church, Glasgow; Saracen Fountain; Scotland Street School Museum; South Portland Street Suspension Bridge; Southern Necropolis
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The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is a museum of religion in Glasgow, Scotland.It has been described as the only public museum in the world devoted solely to this subject, [2] [3] although other notable museums of this kind are the State Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg [4] and the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht.
More immediately evident inspiration can be seen in the cathedral and necropolis episodes in Unthank, whose proximity to an urban tangle of roads is mirrored in Glasgow's real-life Townhead area. Glasgow Cathedral is yards away from the Necropolis to the east and the M8 motorway (and unfinished Inner Ring Road) to the north and west. Gray said ...
The nearby St Andrew's in the Square was started in 1739 and completed in 1757, making St Andrew's by the Green the fourth-oldest church building in Glasgow by date of starting construction, or third-oldest by date of completion, the earlier two being Glasgow Cathedral and the Trongate steeple. It is a symmetrical classical building. [1]