2009

NS6673 : Kirkintilloch: Auld Aisle graveyard gateway and watchhouse

taken 15 years ago, near to Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Kirkintilloch: Auld Aisle graveyard gateway and watchhouse
Kirkintilloch: Auld Aisle graveyard gateway and watchhouse
This 18th century gateway to the Auld Aisle graveyard is surmounted by a watchhouse and a belfry. The watchhouse, reached by steps built into the arch of the gateway, was intended to provide shelter to people guarding newly buried people against grave robbers. In the early 19th century there was a great shortage of corpses for anatomists and grave robbers, or resurrection men as they were called, made a living by stealing the newly dead and buried. The bell in the belfry may have been used to call for assistance or it may have housed the deid or mort bell which was tolled at funerals.

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Category: Watch tower
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Auld Aisle Graveyard [2] ·
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NS6673, 36 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Martyn Gorman   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 31 May, 2009   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 4 June, 2009
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 665 730 [100m precision]
WGS84: 55:55.9272N 4:8.2416W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 665 730
View Direction
East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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