Elswick Road, St. John's Cemetery, entrance gates
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 <By Form>
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
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
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