Sighthill Cemetery

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Sighthill Cemetery
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Sighthill Cemetery
Details
Established1840
Location
Central Glasgow, Scotland
CountryUnited Kingdom
Coordinates 55°52′37″N4°14′10″W / 55.8770°N 4.2362°W / 55.8770; -4.2362
TypeActive
Owned by Glasgow City Council
Size46 acres
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Sighthill Cemetery is an active cemetery in central Glasgow, Scotland dating from 1840. It has an operational crematorium. [1] It lies within the Sighthill neighbourhood on the A803 Springburn Road between Cowlairs Park and Petershill Park, north of Glasgow city centre, bounded to the north by Keppochhill Road.

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History

Sighthill Cemetery was laid out on former farmland linked to the Fountainwell Farm in 1839/40. [2] [3]

The first burial was on 24 April 1840. The cemetery is laid out in an informal pattern with serpentine paths, typical of the first British cemeteries. [4]

The cemetery contains 116 war graves. [5]

The cemetery itself is a listed entity, [6] and its entrance lodge with gates [7] and the Martyrs' Monument (see below) [8] and all with Category B status.

Notable burials

Other memorials

Monument dating from 1847 to the leaders of the 1820 Radical War (otherwise known as the 1820 Insurrection), including John Baird (1790–1820) and Andrew Hardie. [2] Although several records state that those executed were re-interred at Sighthill that is neither likely nor what the monument itself says. [9]

Martyrs Monument in 2024. Glasgow City - Martyrs Monument, Sighthill Cemetery, 225 Springburn Road, Glasgow - 20240903190141.jpg
Martyrs Monument in 2024.

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References

  1. "Sighthill Cemetery | 0141 287 3961 | Glasgow".
  2. 1 2 Sighthill Cemetery Gates (Glasgow School of Art Archives), The Glasgow Story
  3. Glasgow, 225 Springburn Road, Sighthill Cemetery, Canmore
  4. "Map Galleries".
  5. "Glasgow (Sighthill) Cemetery | Cemetery Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission .
  6. Sighthill Cemetery, 225 Springburn Road, Glasgow, British Listed Buildings
  7. Lodge And Gatepiers, Sighthill Cemetery, 225 Springburn Road, Glasgow, British Listed Buildings
  8. Martyrs' Monument, Sighthill Cemetery, 225 Springburn Road, Glasgow, British Listed Buildings
  9. "1820 Martyrs' Monument, Sighthill Cemetery © Lairich Rig :: Geograph Britain and Ireland".