Margaret Wilson Statue, Stirling Valley Cemetery

Statues of heroes of the Scottish Presbyterian Reformation, set up when the cemetery was opened, were part of the educational and 'improving’ atmosphere of Victorian Stirling.
These enclosed figures represent the traditional story of Margaret Wilson who, aged 18, was executed by drowning in the Solway Firth in 1685 for refusing to renounce her Protestant faith. The monument avoids the horror of her death and presents a more sentimental Victorian idealisation of women.
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