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Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street, Edinburgh

A Category C Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9674 / 55°58'2"N

Longitude: -3.1851 / 3°11'6"W

OS Eastings: 326121

OS Northings: 675568

OS Grid: NT261755

Mapcode National: GBR 8Q8.9B

Mapcode Global: WH6SM.18KN

Plus Code: 9C7RXR87+XW

Entry Name: Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street

Listing Date: 10 March 1999

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 365306

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27935

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200365306

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Leith Walk

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Laid out by David Cousin, opened 20th September 1846. Near rectangular-plan, split site cemetery. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble coped and stepped boundary walls enclosing and dividing site. Predominantly later 19th century head stones, several column memorials (urns surmounting some), central walled pend to middle of site, some gravestones now set in boundary wall, Cross war memorial on granite plinth to SE of site and notable pink sandstone gothic memorial, 1911, to Salverns. Modern single storey rendered building adjoining boundary wall. Entrance to NE with buttresses flanking and framing quadrant walls terminated by pilaster-flanked hoodmoulded arrowslit windows, with carved frieze capping breaking height of flanking walls.

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