Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE MANSFIELD ROAD 646-1/4/395 (West side (off)) Retaining walls and stairs in Church Cemetery

GV II

Retaining walls and stairway to sunken cemetery plot. 1851-56. Rockfaced Bulwell stone and ashlar. The burial plot is in a semicircular amphitheatre, formerly a sand quarry, approx 10m deep and 60m across. The plot is ringed by retaining walls with continuous pointed arches divided by buttresses, with a coped parapet wall. On the north-east side, a tunnel entrance from Mansfield Road. On the north-west side, an ashlar stairway carried on segmental pointed arches and flanked by a balustrade wall with stepped coping. The plot contains many multiple burials c1900-1914, as well as conventional internments. Church Cemetery was landscaped by Edwin Patchitt of Nottingham, 1856. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 238; Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 19; Nottingham Evening Post : 02/08/88).

Listing NGR: SK5678741198

External Links

• Wikidata Q26311301

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas