Join us for a part 2 to our part 1 walking tour of the famous Glasgow Necropolis. The walking tour will be done by The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis. There is a minimum £10 donation per person for the tour which can be brought and paid on the day. The tour will last around 2 hours so please dress appropriately for the weather on the day and the Necropolis can be uneven underfoot in places, good walking shoes are strongly recommended and all tours are undertaken at their own risk.
The meeting point will be at the Gatehouse which is just inside the main gates of the Necropolis next to Glasgow Cathedral and behind the St Mungo Museum of Religion.
Even if you didn't make it along to Part 1, you can still come along to Part 2!
See event description below:
The Glasgow Necropolis embodies Glasgow at the height its power as the Second City of the British Empire, over 37 acres with 50,000 people interred from engineers, artist, iron founders, inventors, ship builders, locomotive makers, scientists, poets, factory owners, and business people of Victorian Glasgow are buried here. Their monuments were designed by famous architects and sculptors of the time such as Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
The Necropolis was the first ornamental garden cemetery in Scotland with a landscape inspired by Pere Lachaise in Paris. It is included in Historic Scotland’s inventory if Gardens and Designed Landscapes. The Necropolis is also home to many thousands of ordinary Glaswegians, many of whom are buried in unmarked graves.
The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis (The Friends) are delighted to offer informal and informative walking tours undertaken by our friendly and knowledgeable volunteer tour guides.
