Elswick Road, St. John's Cemetery, entrance gates

HER Number:
8845

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Elswick Road, St. John's Cemetery, entrance gates

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Barrier

Site Type: Specific:
Wall

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Cemetery gateway, piers, walls and railings. Circa 1856 by Johnstone and Knowles. Sandstone ashlar and cast iron. Tudor arch, under string and gabled, crocketed parapet, flanked by tall octagonal piers with gabled coping and high octagonal gabled pinnacles; flanking piers to pedestrian gates have gabled coping. Vehicle and pedestrian gates are gothic-traceried and have spearhead standards and dog bars. Rounded coping to quadrant walls with spear-headed railings and low, spiked dog bars. Scroll above entrance inscribed ST. JOHN'S/CEMETERY/ELSWICK. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
422566

Northing:
563857

Grid Reference:
NZ422566563857

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/229; Gillate, J. 2017. Elswick St John's Cemetery gatehouses and St John's Chapel, HER4849