Paisley+Cemetery+Company

=Paisley Cemetery Company. Limited=

Company Number: SC001281 Date of Incorporation: 7 September 1883 Contact Details: 19 Glasgow Road, Paisley, PA1 3QX Operating Details: Active Other names (if known): Function of Company*: Funeral and related activities (9303) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Paisley Area of Operation: Paisley Cemetery


 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Records
Held By: Privately- contact The Registrar at Paisley Cemetery Co. Ltd, 46 Broomlands Street, Paisley, PA1 2NP or 0141 889 2260

Scope/type: Standard business records (including minute books and reports) dating from the 1940s; cemetery operating records date back to 1845 (when the cemetery was opened); cremation records date from 1938. All other records were destroyed by flooding.

Conditions governing access/use: Please contact The Registrar above

Related records: Some minor records in National Archives of Scotland (court records and alterations of constitution). More information on the history of the cemetery may be found in the newspaper collection of The Paisley Express in Paisley Library.

Company History
Situated on a low hill-top position between Woodside House and Ferguslie House, the ‘garden cemetery’ extended to just over 20 acres and incorporated the recently built Martyr’s Church and the adjacent Covenanter Martyrs Memorial.

The Paisley Cemetery Company started business in 1845, to provide additional burial space at Woodside, in response to the needs of a rapidly growing local population. Paisley Woodside Cemetery was laid out in that year to a design drawn up by Stewart Murray, curator of Glasgow Botanic gardens.

Murray’s design was inspired by the earlier garden cemetery at Glasgow Necropolis 1832, which also took its inspiration from Père la Chaise, the first hill-top garden cemetery, in Paris, laid out in 1804 by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart.

The Company became a member of the Federation of British Cremation Authorities in 1938, with the provision of a new, purpose built crematorium, designed by the well- known local architect James Steel Maitland.

One of the finest buildings of its kind anywhere in the country, it was opened on 28th October 1938 by the Rt. Hon. Lord Salveson, and is today a well preserved listed building. The crematorium serves not only the Paisley and Renfrewshire areas, but also North Ayrshire, West Glasgow and beyond. Two gardens of remembrance offer a peaceful setting for contemplation, both are adjacent to the crematorium and open every day of the year.

With thanks and acknowledgement to the Registrar of the company, Mr Frank McFadyen.