Tyne and Wear HER(8845): Elswick, Elswick Road, St. John's Cemetery, entrance gates - Details
8845
Newcastle
Elswick, Elswick Road, St. John's Cemetery, entrance gates
Elswick
NZ26SW
Monument
Barrier
Wall
Early Modern
C19
Structure
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
22566
63857
NZ2256663857
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