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Eastwood Parish Church

Church (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Eastwood Parish Church

Classification Church (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 278512

Site Number NS56SE 97.02

NGR NS 55907 60624

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/278512

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  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Eastwood (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Recording Your Heritage Online

Eastwood Old Cemetery, 200 Thornliebank Road, c.1725

Site of original Eastwood Church until 1781. Maxwell Mausoleum, 18th century, with fine marble sculptured panel on east flank. 18th-century Headstone to Robert Woodrow, died 1794, Minister of Eastwood, set in an Egypto-Greek monument by John Mossman, probably designed by Alexander Thomson. Among the later are the stone and cast-iron Smith Monument and a tall granite memorial for John Campbell, writer, who died in 1903.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

Architecture Notes

NS56SE 97.02 55907 60624

This church, dating from 1781, was replaced in 1863 by the present church (NS56SE 97.00), built on the same site.

See also NS56SE 40, an even earlier parish church. Information from Anne Cassells, 02 February 2006.

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