Tyne and Wear HER(9046): Newcastle General Cemetery, archway, chapels, walls - Details
9046
Newcastle
Newcastle General Cemetery, archway, chapels, walls
Jesmond
NZ26NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Place of Worship
Cemetery Chapel
POST MEDIEVAL
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Extant Building
Entrance archway, chapels, walls and gates. 1836 by John Dobson for Newcastle
General Cemetery Company; restored 1978 by Tyne and Wear County Council. Sandstone
ashlar with plinth; Welsh slate roofs. Symmetrical; classical style. Banded
rustication. High round arch with archivolt and impost band flanked by 2-storey
towers and one-storey, one-bay chapels. Cornice and blocking course above arch;
second stage of towers has corner pilasters and iron grilles under cornice and
blocking course. Chapels attached have pediments on paired pilasters and central
recessed panels. Flat-coped walls enclose area in front and break forward, ending
in square piers with flat coping. Wrought iron vehicle and pedestrian gates have
spearhead standards and dog-bars and acanthus ornament to principals. LISTED GRADE 2*
425690
565560
NZ425690565560
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 9/339; T. Faulkner and A. Greg, 1987, John Dobson Newcastle Architect 1787-1865