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Heaven, History and High Ground: Glasgow Cathedral & Necropolis

Rising over the old heart of Glasgow, the medieval Glasgow Cathedral stands on the site where St Mungo (St Kentigern) is believed to have founded a church some 1,500 years ago, anchoring the city’s Christian origins in stone and stained glass. Nearby, the 19th‑century Victorian garden cemetery of the Necropolis spreads across the hill, inspired by Paris’s Père‑Lachaise and home to around 50,000 burials and some 3,500 elaborate monuments to Glasgow’s industrial‑age elite. Together, the soaring Gothic cathedral and the “city of the dead” above it offer sweeping views and a vivid journey through Glasgow’s religious roots, merchant wealth, and architectural grandeur, from the John Knox monument crowning the hill to memorials by celebrated designers like Alexander “Greek” Thomson and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.