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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26311301

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