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Gates And Gate Piers, Cemetery, Lasswade

A Category B Listed Building in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8829 / 55°52'58"N

Longitude: -3.1183 / 3°7'5"W

OS Eastings: 330140

OS Northings: 666088

OS Grid: NT301660

Mapcode National: GBR 60NF.P0

Mapcode Global: WH6T1.2DCG

Plus Code: 9C7RVVMJ+4M

Entry Name: Gates And Gate Piers, Cemetery, Lasswade

Listing Name: Lasswade Cemetery; Lodges, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 7 March 1997

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390845

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44144

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Lasswade, Cemetery, Gates And Gate Piers

ID on this website: 200390845

Location: Lasswade

County: Midlothian

Electoral Ward: Bonnyrigg

Parish: Lasswade

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Early 20th century. Walls enclosing hillside cemetery, extending SE and W with gates, quadrant walls and flanking square plan lodges. Bull-faced and snecked pink and cream sandstone. Raised cills to lodge windows; keystones, breaking eaves course; raised, banded quoins to lodges; ashlar cope to walls.

GATEPIERS AND GATES: tapered, banded, square-plan gatepiers to centre of arrangement; ashlar plinth-and-pyramid cap. Decorative wrought-iron gates with flower motif to each upper section. Gatepiers linked by stepped quadrant walls to piers flanking lodges. Walls extending uphill to NE and downhill to S.

LODGES: Outer walls advancing slightly through boundary walls towards road. Windows set high to road elevations. Deep-set, boarded doors to gate-facing elevations. Window set high to boundary-facing elevations. Advanced, full-height wallhead stack to cemetery-facing elevation of lodge to SE.

9-pane, fixed windows; swept, grey slate pyramidal roofs with double- ended finials; ashlar coped stack to rear of S lodge; cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

Currently used as a store for the cemetery keeper.

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