Adshead's handy guide to Glasgow : with map, views, tramway routes and fares and other useful information . dral. On either side of the entrance is abronze statue, one to the late James Arthur, of Messrs. Arthur& Company, and the other to the late James White, of Over-toun, father of Lord Overtoun. The cemetery is romantic andpicturesque, ornamented with fine old trees intermingled withshrubbery, and intersected with walks bordered with flowers,while many beautiful monuments are scattered over the is reached by a one-arch bridge, called the Bridge of Sighs,across the Molendinar (which
Adshead's handy guide to Glasgow : with map, views, tramway routes and fares and other useful information . dral. On either side of the entrance is abronze statue, one to the late James Arthur, of Messrs. Arthur& Company, and the other to the late James White, of Over-toun, father of Lord Overtoun. The cemetery is romantic andpicturesque, ornamented with fine old trees intermingled withshrubbery, and intersected with walks bordered with flowers,while many beautiful monuments are scattered over the is reached by a one-arch bridge, called the Bridge of Sighs,across the Molendinar (which is now built over and flows under-neath what is called Wishart Street), and entered by a handsomegateway with the arms of the city and the Merchants Housesculptured on a double shield. On the summit of the hill, themost conspicuous monument is that of John Knox, in hisGeneva cap and gown, with a Bible in his right hand. Thebase of the monument is a massive and lofty Doric column byThos. Hamilton, and the figure, by Robt. Forrest, surmountingit is 12 feet in height. Amongst other monuments are those.
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