Dumbarton Cemetery :: Shared Description

The cemetery was formally opened on the 4th of October, 1854, replacing the overcrowded parish churchyard. See the Geograph article "Dumbarton Cemetery" – LinkExternal link – for a detailed discussion. For biographies of many of those buried here, and for descriptions of their memorials, see Donald MacLeod's "The God's Acres of Dumbarton" (1888), and the same author's "Dumbarton: Its Recent Men and Events" (1898). By 2010, there was concern that Dumbarton Cemetery would run out of space within a decade; New Dumbarton Cemetery – LinkExternal link – was subsequently created uphill from the existing cemetery, and opened at the end of December 2015.
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NS4076 : Memorial to Dr William Swan Stuart (detail) by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Memorial to Alexander Dingwall McRae by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Memorial to the Dennys of Castlegreen by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Garvie and MacLean Memorials by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The Janet Rankin Memorial by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Memorial to Robert Ritchie, Engineer by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The Risk Family Memorial (detail) by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Dumbarton Cemetery by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The Davidson Memorial by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The White Memorial by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Memorial to Joshua H Wilkinson by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Memorial to Robert Buchanan by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Memorial to Alexander Allan, Town Clerk by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Breithaupt Memorial detail by Lairich Rig
NS4075 : Memorial to James Denny by Lairich Rig
NS4075 : The gravestone of Talwin Morris by Lairich Rig
NS4075 : The Oddfellows' Monument by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The McGregor Memorial by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Memorial to William Young: detail by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The Cuninghame Steele Memorial by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The Ward Family Memorial by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The John Proudfoot Memorial by Lairich Rig
NS4075 : The Helenslee Family Memorial by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : Babtie Memorial: detail by Lairich Rig
NS4076 : The gravestone of Daniel Rankin by Lairich Rig

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Created: Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Updated: Sun, 2 Oct 2016

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