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Barnhill Cemetery, Barnhill, Dundee

A Category C Listed Building in Dundee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4758 / 56°28'32"N

Longitude: -2.857 / 2°51'25"W

OS Eastings: 347309

OS Northings: 731850

OS Grid: NO473318

Mapcode National: GBR VN.PSFY

Mapcode Global: WH7RD.2HTF

Plus Code: 9C8VF4GV+86

Entry Name: Barnhill Cemetery, Barnhill, Dundee

Listing Name: Barnhill, Strathmore Street, Barnhill Cemetery Including Boundary Walls, Gates and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 29 October 1991

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 362149

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25751

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200362149

Location: Dundee

County: Dundee

Town: Dundee

Electoral Ward: The Ferry

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Cemetery

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Description

James MacLaren, 1869. Large municipal cemetery containing many fine 19th century gravestones.

WALLS AND GATEPIERS: Strathmore and Edzell Streets: rubble walls at N, E and W, stepped at intervals, with saddleback coping, low wall at S with iron railings. 2 buttressed octagonal-section ashlar gatepiers at Strathmore Street with mannered finialled pyramedal caps, cast- and wrought-iron gates; 2 chamfered square-section gatepiers at Edzell Street with gablet caps, cast- and wrought-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

Barnhill cemetery was opened following the closure of the Old Burial Ground at Chapel Lane, off Fisher Street (listed deparately), occasioned in part by a cholera epidemic in 1866. Barnhill cemetery lodge is listed separately.

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