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This mausoleum dates from 1906, only a few years after the cemetery
opened, and it is specifically mentioned in the listing text for the
cemetery. The Douglas of Mains
crest appears on the plaque at its far
end.
The location is near the high point of the cemetery (the
memorial is also on the berm of the Antonine Wall; the berm is the space
between the rampart and the ditch of the Wall).
Rectangular-plan, raised, open burial plot; low outer boundary walls of
coursed, stugged red sandstone; advanced base course, splayed at top;
plain, thin rectangular copes; raised entrance to S side; plain
rectangular buttresses to centre of E and W walls. Flat, raised inner
burial area; loose pebble covering; commemorative plaque to N wall with
Douglas of Mains crest and raised lettering.
The family of
Douglas of Mains was descended from Nicholas Douglas
(son of the fourth Lord of Hermiston), who in September 1373 married Janet Galbraith,
heiress of Mains, though whom he inherited substantial lands.
New Kilpatrick Cemetery, also known as Hillfoot
Cemetery, was opened in 1903, following a competition to design the new
cemetery layout. The winning design showed pathways laid out to form in
plan the outline of a Roman centurions helmet, in recognition of the
fact that a particularly well preserved section of the Antonine Wall, a
Scheduled Ancient Monument, crosses the centre of the cemetery.
Two areas of the wall have been excavated to their stone base course and
remain exposed. The cemetery paths were gradually laid out as the
cemetery was filled, appearing complete for the first time on the
Ordnance Survey map revised between 1936-1938. There is no trace of the
cemetery or lodge on the 2nd edition map from the 1890s, showing only
open fields at this time.
Between the Wars (c.1922), it was
extended to the north. Its former lodge, at the SW corner, is now a
private residence.
The cemetery is bordered to the left by the
Old Bearden Conservation Area, but excludes any of the cemetery grounds.
Another, earlier, Mausoleum of the Douglas of Mains family is found
in the churchyard of New Kilpatrick Parish Church.
The mausoleum in
New Kilpatrick cemetery was installed in 1906, in what was eventually to
be the centre of the cemetery and the Ordnance Survey map of 1914 shows
the mausoleum to be at the very rear of the half developed cemetery.
A memorial to Brigadier
General Douglas Campbell Douglas of Mains also stands in New
Kilpatrick Cemetery. |
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