Tyne and Wear HER(6409): Elswick, St John's Cemetery, west lodge - Details
6409
Newcastle
Elswick, St John's Cemetery, west lodge
Elswick
NZ26SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Cemetery Lodge
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
The cemetery (HER 5285) opened in 1857 with buildings probably by Johnstone and Knowles. To the east and west of the entrance are two stone lodges, listed grade 2. The western chapel is Church of England. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs with overlapping gable copings. L-plan. One storey. Shouldered arch to door and overlight in extended porch facing street. Shouldered heads to windows. 2 pairs of octagonal chimneys with plinth and coping on west lodge. LISTED GRADE 2
2255
6385
NZ22556385
English Heritage, 2003, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest GD3557; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, p 514; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 11/230; Gillate, J. 2017. Elswick St John's Cemetery gatehouses and St John's Chapel, HER4849