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Latitude: 56.0021 / 56°0'7"N
Longitude: -4.7127 / 4°42'45"W
OS Eastings: 230937
OS Northings: 682110
OS Grid: NS309821
Mapcode National: GBR 0F.TWT0
Mapcode Global: WH2M4.LD1L
Plus Code: 9C8Q272P+RW
Entry Name: Cemetery, Helensburgh
Listing Name: Old Luss Road, Helensburgh Cemetery Including Boundary Walls, Lodge, Gatepiers and Gates
Listing Date: 30 June 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379215
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34824
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Helensburgh, Cemetery
ID on this website: 200379215
Location: Helensburgh
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Helensburgh
Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Cemetery
Mid 19th century Necropolis. Single storey, 3-bay gate-lodge abutting
E boundary wall; graveyard with series of monuments laid out in regular blocks divided by gravel paths and with various monuments abutting boundary walls.
GATE-LODGE: cream snecked and stugged sandstone rubble; bull-faced dressings.
N ELEVATION: fanlit boarded door to centre, windows flanking. Lower 2-bay block wing to W, doorway to left, window to right, piended roof.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 windows.
S (REAR) ELEVATION: door to S return of lower block. Rear of lodge with window to left. L-plan service wing abutting to right with door on W face.
Window now blocked. Grey slate roof; bull-faced corniced end stacks. BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: bull-faced coping to rubble wall, bull-faced square gatepiers with low pyramidal caps, 2-leaf decorative wrought and cast-iron gates incorporating pedestrian gate (in poor repair).
MONUMENTS: wall and free-standing, predominantly classical in style, including:
REV JOHN LINDSAY, FIRST MINISTER OF THE PARISH OF HELENSBURGH (D.1895): tall off-set pedestal with fluted column, medallion of Lindsay below column.
JAMES MASTERTON (D.185.?): sarcophagus on low off-set plinth, Roman Doric frieze with patera to metope below dentilled cornice, moulded cap with scrolled and foilate ends.
JANET WALKER (D.1881): composite column entwined with bay leaf garland, set on low off-set pedestal and supporting urn.
ANDREW BONAR LAW (D.1923): principally to Andrew Bonar Law former Prime Minister of Great Britain; tripartite with taller semi-circular arched bay to centre supported by Scamozzi Ionic columns.
HUGH KERR (D.1891): William Leiper, architect. Pink granite plinth with angle buttresses supporting black marble Doric columns and enclosing grey granite slab with wreathed portrait roundel of Hugh Kerr and inscribed "in memory of Hugh Kerr, tobacco merchant Kentucky. Born at Gatend Beith 3 January 1808, Died at Helensburgh 7 February 1891". Pink granite frieze, grey granite scrolled pediment.
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