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Latitude: 55.9841 / 55°59'2"N
Longitude: -4.5915 / 4°35'29"W
OS Eastings: 238423
OS Northings: 679817
OS Grid: NS384798
Mapcode National: GBR 0L.VSMB
Mapcode Global: WH3NB.FVTF
Plus Code: 9C7QXCM5+JC
Entry Name: Bridge, Vale Of Leven Cemetery, Alexandria
Listing Name: Alexandria, Overton Road, Vale of Leven Cemetery with Monuments, Bridge, Boundary Wall, Gates and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 29 March 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389615
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43206
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Alexandria, Vale of Leven Cemetery, Bridge
ID on this website: 200389615
Location: Bonhill
County: West Dunbartonshire
Electoral Ward: Leven
Parish: Bonhill
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Footbridge
James Wilson of Greenock, 1881. Double garden cemetery on hillside overlooking Alexandria.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: squared and snecked red sandstone rubble with ashlar coping; decorative cast-iron pierced piers, urn finials; decorative cast-iron railings and pedestrian gate to right.
BRIDGE: carrying path over burn to secondary graveyard. Decorative entwined vescial pierced balustrade, small terminal piers with pyramidal caps.
MEMORIALS: various late 19th century memorials. Memorial to Mary Thurburn, 1889 obelisk and trumpet-blowing angel.
Kinloch family memorial; Greek memoial with funeral urn, ashlar casket beneath arch of base commemorating death of infant son of Thomas Kinloch.
The land on which the cemetery was built was purchased from the Smollett family. The gates and railings were maufactured in the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow.
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