2019

NS7892 : St Thomas Cemetery

taken 5 years ago, near to Cambusbarron, Stirling, Scotland

This is 1 of 2 images, with title St Thomas Cemetery in this square
St Thomas Cemetery
St Thomas Cemetery
The houses in the right background are on St Thomas's Place; the name is shown as such on large-scale mapping, and that spelling is confirmed by a street sign. However, the name of the cemetery itself is, according to the sign at its entrance, "St Thomas Cemetery", and the same form is employed on the information panel mentioned in the end-note. Some large-scale mapping uses the spelling "St Thomas's Cemetery", but that seems not to reflect actual usage.
St Thomas Cemetery, Cambusbarron

An information panel near the entrance states that Stirling Burgh Council was given approval on the 25th of January 1949 to purchase land here near St Thomas Well to be used as a burial ground, Stirling's existing Old Town Cemeteries by then being full. By November of the same year, the land had been approved for use as a burial ground for the burgh of Stirling. As mentioned on the panel, St Thomas Well is nearby. Also related there (though probably apocryphal) is that, on the eve of the Battle of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce and his army were blessed using water from local wells, and that, after the victory, people attributed a supernatural efficacy to those wells' water.


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Geographical Context: Burial ground, Crematorium Primary Subject: Cemetery
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · St Thomas Cemetery [6] · Information Panel Mentioned in the End-note [3] Title Clusters: · St Thomas Cemetery [2] ·
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NS7892, 34 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 September, 2019   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 3 October, 2019
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 7813 9295 [10m precision]
WGS84: 56:6.8220N 3:57.6889W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 7811 9294
View Direction
Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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