Description

1839 (gatepiers dated). Large cemetery enclosed by coped, sandstone ashlar walls with pedimented lodges terminating S wall to E and W. S wall extends E forming secondary enclosure with entrance upon Rose Hill. Cemetery sub-divided by internal walls with lodge and gatepiers.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: lodge to W; fine ashlar, 2 blocked round-arched windows, pedimented gablehead, T-plan house extending N, rubble and dry-dash, replacement windows and roof slates, ashlar gablehead stacks. Gatepiers and gates to centre; inscribed "1839", square section, corniced and capped gatepiers with cast-iron gates decorated with ornate cross finials and bands. Lodge to E: facade echoing that to W, 2 round-arched windows, pedimented gablehead, cemetery wall extending N with stone shed in return to left.

E ELEVATION: raised boundary wall of secondary enclosure; square section, cornice and capped gatepiers and cast-iron gates as those on S elevation. Further similar gatepiers upon inner wall to W.

INTERNAL: lodge adjacent to inner S entrance; base course, eaves band course, 2 lancet windows and pointed arch doorway. Further dividing wall running E-W with ornate Baroque gatepiers dated 1816. Many fine 19th Century headstones and monuments.

N AND W ELEVATIONS: coped rubble boundary walls to N, squared and stugged to W.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17780503

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)