The concept proposals developed in 2003
extended lighting and landscaping in the Necropolis
further than the two monuments identified for lighting
by Glasgow City Council as part of a city wide lighting
strategy.
The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis and Glasgow City
Council have now adopted these proposals. Work is due to
begin on site during 2006.
The pathway chosen as the cable route up to the Monteith
Mausoleum will be lit with in-ground marker lights to
illuminate the pathway itself and parts of the
surrounding monuments and plantings.
This will be enhanced by placement of accent lights
behind the stone balustrades found along the path, and
above the path where it runs beneath the Monteith
Mausoleum.
The in-ground fittings proposed emit light in three
distinct sectors. The sectors of the light output that
face Wishart Street will be coloured with glass inserts
to reduce glare and provide interesting points of light
along the pathway when viewed at a distance through
trees.
Small LED “bricks”, shaped like the granite setts
proposed to edge the pathway, will provide tiles of
light that counterpoint the light from the in-ground
fittings and share the same colour. Placement of the LED
light points is cleverly controlled to add tints of
light to memorials and overhanging trees where they
touch the path, and mimics the meandering and random
clustering of memorials and plants in the cemetery.
The pathway will be re-surfaced with Whinstone setts and
defined by granite bands either side.
The landscaping of the pathway will be detailed with
engraved granite slabs that show the name of the section
the pathway traverses. Students from the HNC/HND
Architectural Conservation course at Glasgow
Metropolitan College will create these special marker
stones.
