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
Tagged with: Cemetery
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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