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Latitude: 55.855 / 55°51'17"N
Longitude: -3.1616 / 3°9'41"W
OS Eastings: 327382
OS Northings: 663031
OS Grid: NT273630
Mapcode National: GBR 60CQ.BZ
Mapcode Global: WH6T6.D3QB
Plus Code: 9C7RVR3Q+X9
Entry Name: Roslin Cemetery, Roslin
Listing Name: Roslin Cemetery, including gates, gatepiers and boundary walls, excluding scheduled monument SM6458, Roslin
Listing Date: 7 March 1997
Last Amended: 19 July 2017
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 406787
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44178
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200406787
Location: Lasswade
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Midlothian West
Parish: Lasswade
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Cemetery
Late 19th- early 20th century with some headstones dating from the late 18th century. Two walled and gated graveyards on ground falling to SW and separated N-S by a track which leads to Rosslyn Castle.
UPPER GRAVEYARD: smaller; snecked, bull-faced sandstone boundary walls with stepped, castellated cope to N and shaped rubble cope to remainder. Square-plan banded bull-faced and ashlar gatepiers with polished ashlar cornice and obelisk cap. Decorative wrought-iron gates. Contains predominantly headstones from late 19th and 20th century.
LOWER GRAVEYARD: larger; snecked bull-faced sandstone boundary walls and shaped rubble cope. Square-plan bull-faced gatepiers with polished ashlar cornice and stet obelisk caps. Lower graveyard contains predominantly headstones, some wall-monuments, with several dating from the late 18th century (earliest,1782). Single storey 2-bay bull-faced sandstone, crowstepped gabled CARETAKER'S HUT to SW boundary wall: chamfered ashlar bipartite window to each bay. Grey slate roof; red clay stack to N gablehead; cast-iron rainwater goods.
It appears that the graveyard was originally a single site, located to the lower side of the track. It is in this section that the oldest headstones appear.
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