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Latitude: 55.9373 / 55°56'14"N
Longitude: -3.2267 / 3°13'36"W
OS Eastings: 323469
OS Northings: 672267
OS Grid: NT234722
Mapcode National: GBR 8FM.X3
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.D1Q5
Plus Code: 9C7RWQPF+W8
Entry Name: Gates And Boundary Walls, North Merchiston Cemetery, Ardmillan Terrace, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Ardmillan Terrace North Merchiston Cemetery with Lodge Gates and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 9 February 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363394
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26704
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363394
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Sighthill/Gorgie
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Cemetery laid out 1881.
GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS: 4 square ashlar piers with chamfered arrises, bases and pyramidal ashlar caps; joined by quadrants of cast-iron arrowhead railings, with similar 2-leaf gates between. Squared and snecked rubble walls with semi-circular stugged coping stones.
LODGE: circa 1881 with modern additon to N. 2-storey gabled lodge with single storey service block to N. 1st floor breaking eaves. Coursed and stugged sandstone, chamfered arrises. Overhanging eaves with moulded bargeboards to W, plain to E; exposed rafters. Small windows. Gabled dormerheads to 1st floor windows breaking eaves. Ashlar mullions.
W ELEVATION: 3-bay. Advanced gabled bay at centre with modern door and lights in shouldered doorframe at ground, corbel course to 1st floor; window above door. Flanking bays with bipartite window to both floors. To left single storey service wing obscured by modern addition.
E ELEVATION: 3-bay. Advanced stair bay at centre with door at ground and bipartite window above; flanked by similarly advanced ground floor bays with pentice roofs, that to N extending into service wing. S ELEVATION: gabled; single window to both floors at centre.
SERVICE BLOCK: gabled. Adjacent to N gable; serving as link to gabled 2-storey addition at right angles. Modern glazed sun-lounge in re-entrant angle to W. Timber sash and case windows with plate glass. Grey slates. Broad chamfered coped stack at centre.
Cemetery contains a marble medallion portrait of James Galloway 1866-99 by John S Rhind. Built by the Edinburgh Cemetery Co to ease overcrowding at Dalry Cemetery. Now requiring upkeep and maintenance.
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