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M033 Gravestone for Chief Constable Alexander McCall

Address: The Necropolis, Cathedral Square, Glasgow G4 0UZ
Date: 1890–1
Client: Glasgow Police Commissioners, friends and colleagues
Authorship:

(Mackintosh)

1888: 29 March: Death of Alexander McCall. 1

1991: Memorial toppled from its base; head of cross broken. 2

1996: 22 May: Re-erected, following repairs carried out in the Aberdeen yard of Messrs J. & G. Mossman. 3
Bronze relief panel taken into care of Glasgow Museums and replaced with fibreglass cast. 4

2005: Cross reassembled from fragments, repaired and re-erected. 5

Notes:

1: Glasgow Herald, 30 March 1888, p. 9.

2: Iain Paterson, 'Alexander McCall Memorial, Necropolis', Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 69, Spring 1996, p. 8.

3: Iain Paterson, 'Alexander McCall Memorial', Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 70, Autumn 1996, p. 12.

4: Iain Paterson, 'Alexander McCall Memorial', Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 71, Spring 1997, p. 15; Glasgow Museums Acc. No. PP.1996.84.

5: Scotsman, 10 October 2005, p. 13.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.