Wallace Monument, Robroyston Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Monument.

Wallace Monument, Robroyston Road, Glasgow

WRENN ID: nether-cobalt-woodpecker
Grade: B
Local Planning Authority: Glasgow City
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 15 December 1970
Type: Monument
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Monument at roadside erected 1900 to mark reputed site of house in which Sir William Wallace, Guardian of Scotland, was betrayed in 1305.

Tall pink granite cross executed by McGlashen, sculptors, Edinburgh (signed); form (though not the detail) derived from St Martin's cross, Iona. Raised high on granite plinth and enclosed by plain iron railings. Site is an inset in to field, farm dyke has been breached and rebuilt around monument, and given slender, pink ashlar square piers re-used form elsewhere.

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