All Saints Cemetery, gate, walls, piers, railings
All Saints Cemetery, gate, walls, piers, railings
HER Number
9077
District
Newcastle
Site Name
All Saints Cemetery, gate, walls, piers, railings
Place
Jesmond
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Barrier
Site Type: Specific
Gate
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
Cemetery gateway, walls, piers, gates and railings. Dated 1856; by Green. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; wrought iron gates; cast iron railings. Gothic style. High gable over 2-centred arch with 12 shafts each side and many mouldings; gabled ends have fantastic beasts climbing down kneelers; head-stopped dripmoulds, buttresses and finials. High, pointed coping to flanking walls containing pedestrian doors in arches; end piers have gables with fleur-de-lis moulding. Chamfered coping to dwarf quadrant walls and similar walls along cemetery front, with 4 square piers at each side having pyramidal coping. High gates are Gothic-patterned; railings have fleur-de-lis heads. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425790
Northing
565670
Grid Reference
NZ425790565670
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 9/330