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