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The dragon on the side of the A-Listed Govan Old Parish Church seems to have suffered quite badly in recent years. The pipe through its back seems new (alhough there was evidence of previous damage here), along with the metal flashing on the top. There's also a rather unsympathetic repair to the face and (in my opinion) a poor choice of replacement downpipe.
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Govan Old Parish Church and Graveyard, Glasgow.
This is a place that's always worth a visit. Great neogothic architecture, some fantastic old gravestones with lots of interesting symbols on them, and even a dragon hidden on one of the walls (if you can manage to spot it!).
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500 followers · 338 posts · Server mastodon.scotOn this particular stone, these include a skull and crossbones, hourglasses, the crossed spades of gravediggers and the trumpet which will sound at the time of the reserection.
At the top appears to be a carving of a Janus-like figure (with one face looking forward and another looking back on the other side of the stone), which may be part of a very ancient Celtic tradition.
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Early 18th Century Gravestone in the church yard of Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow.
At a time when few people could read, gravestones tended to be covered with symbols, rather than words, designed to remind bypassers of their own mortality.
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Grave stone in the graveyard of Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow.
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The magnificent and imposing ediface of the Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow
Built in the Scottish gothic revival style in the 1880s from a design by the Victoriam architect Robert Rowand Anderson, the building is now a museum housing, amongst other things, the famous Govan Stones.
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