Sighthill Cemetery is an active cemetery in central

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, Scotland dating from 1840. It has an operational crematorium. It lies within the

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neighbourhood on the A803 Springburn Road between Cowlairs Park and Petershill Park, north of

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, bounded to the north by Keppochhill Road.

History

Sighthill Cemetery was laid out on former farmland linked to the Fountainwell Farm in 1839/40.Sighthill Cemetery Gates (Glasgow School of Art Archives)
The Glasgow Story 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. The cemetery contains 116 war graves. The cemetery itself is a listed entity, and its entrance lodge with gates and the Martyrs' Monument (see below) and all with Category B status.

Notable burials

* George A. Walker Arnott (1799-1868) botanist *

Andrew Bonar Andrew Alexander Bonar (29 May 1810 in Edinburgh – 30 December 1892 in Glasgow) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, a contemporary and acquaintance of Robert Murray M'Cheyne and youngest brother of Horatius Bonar. Life He was bo ...

(1810–1892), Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland * Thomas Barclay (1792–1873), Principal of

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* James Hedderwick (1814–1897), newspaper editor * Robert Jamieson (1802–1880),

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John Mossman John G. Mossman ( London 1817–1890) was one of a number of English sculptors who dominated the production and teaching of sculpture in Glasgow for 50 years after his arrival with his father and brothers from his native London in 1828. Hi ...

(1817–1890), sculptor * William Mossman (1793–1851), sculptor *

James Seaton Reid James Seaton Reid MA DD (1798–1851) was an Irish presbyterian minister and church historian. Life Born in Lurgan, County Armagh, he was son of Forest Reid, master of a grammar school there, and Mary Weir, his wife. Left fatherless at an e ...

(1798–1851), Irish-born academic *

Sarah West Sarah West (born 1972) is a retired Royal Navy officer, the first woman to be appointed to command a major warship in the Royal Navy. West was born in Lincolnshire and studied mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire before entering Brita ...

(1790–1876), actress * William Rae Wilson (1817–1893), social reformer

Other memorials

Monument dating from 1847 to the leaders of the 1820

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(otherwise known as the 1820 Insurrection), including John Baird (1790–1820) and Andrew Hardie. Although several records state that those executed were re-interred at Sighthill that is neither likely nor what the monument itself says.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sighthill Cemetery Cemeteries in Scotland 1840 establishments in Scotland Category B listed buildings in Glasgow Springburn