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Latitude: 55.8845 / 55°53'4"N
Longitude: -3.1807 / 3°10'50"W
OS Eastings: 326240
OS Northings: 666331
OS Grid: NT262663
Mapcode National: GBR 607D.5F
Mapcode Global: WH6T0.3CN7
Plus Code: 9C7RVRM9+QP
Entry Name: Burial Ground, Old Pentland
Listing Name: Pentland Burial Ground, Including Watch House, Vault and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 14 September 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 346015
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13036
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Old Pentland, Burial Ground
ID on this website: 200346015
Location: Lasswade
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Midlothian West
Parish: Lasswade
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cemetery
Possibly late 17th-early 18th century, (oldest gravestone dates from 1624). Cream sandstone rubble enclosure, roughly circular, with squared rubble cope. Later square-plan droved sandstone ashlar piers with polished copes and square caps to SE; wrought-iron gates. 18th century rectangular-plan sandstone rubble watch house beside gates to SE; droved margins; roofless. Gibsone of Pentland aedicule type burial vault to S: Thomas Hamilton, circa 1839. Rectangular-plan; droved sandstone ashlar; base course, eaves course and cornice; 2 consoled and pedimented (blinded) windows to each flank and one to rear (N); wrought-iron gates to front (S); barrel vaulted interior; memorial tablet on inner side of north end wall.
The parish of Pentland was annexed to Lasswade in 1647. The Gibsone estate belonged to the Gibsones from the 17th century until it was sold this century by Lt Col Hugh Gibsone. The headstones in the churchyard are varied and numerous and span more than three centuries. The walls were rebuilt in the 18th century and it seems, from the cut and dressed nature of some of the stone, that it might have come from the demolished Pentland Church nearby.
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