3-070-962 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Statue of the late Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod, at Glasgow, 1881. Bronze sculpture by John Mossman of a '...genial, powerful, and devoted Christian minister the popular author...erected in the neighbourhood of Glasgow Cathedral, close to the Barony church, where he laboured most successfully during many years. The statue is 9 ft. in height...The likeness is an excellent one, and portrays with fidelity the noble figure and attitude, and the earnest countenance of Norman Macleod, holding the sacred volume which he loved, and the spirit of which he could expound so well...The Lord Provost observed: "No more appropriate site could be found for the statue of the great and good man that it commemorates than this, because, in the first place, it is near the old Barony church, where for so many years he preached with so much acceptance to one of the largest congregations in Glasgow, and where, as we have heard to-day, he is still held in loving memory; and, in the next place, its contiguity to our ancient cathedral, which I think is itself the noblest monument we have of the unsectarian spirit of our former citizens, who preserved it at the Reformation, when ruthless hands were prepared to raze it to the ground".' From "Illustrated London News", 1881.