Description

James Wilson of Greenock, 1881. Double garden cemetery on hillside overlooking Alexandria.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: squared and snecked red sandstone rubble with ashlar coping; decorative cast-iron pierced piers, urn finials; decorative cast-iron railings and pedestrian gate to right.

BRIDGE: carrying path over burn to secondary graveyard. Decorative entwined vescial pierced balustrade, small terminal piers with pyramidal caps.

MEMORIALS: various late 19th century memorials. Memorial to Mary Thurburn, 1889 obelisk and trumpet-blowing angel.

Kinloch family memorial; Greek memoial with funeral urn, ashlar casket beneath arch of base commemorating death of infant son of Thomas Kinloch.

Statement of Interest

The land on which the cemetery was built was purchased from the Smollett family. The gates and railings were maufactured in the Saracen Foundry in Glasgow.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17847693

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)