Lasswade Cemetery; Lodges, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls Lasswade, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Lasswade Cemetery; Lodges, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 390842 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 44144
- Canmore ID
- 212141
- Category
- B
- Name
- Lasswade Cemetery; Lodges, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls
- Parish
- Lasswade
- County
- Midlothian
- Easting
- 330116
- Northing
- 666069
- Date Listed
- 7 March 1997
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Early 20th century. Walls enclosing hillside cemetery, extending SE and W with gates, quadrant walls and flanking square plan lodges. Bull-faced and snecked pink and cream sandstone. Raised cills to lodge windows; keystones, breaking eaves course; raised, banded quoins to lodges; ashlar cope to walls. GATEPIERS AND GATES: tapered, banded, square-plan gatepiers to centre of arrangement; ashlar plinth-and-pyramid cap. Decorative wrought-iron gates with flower motif to each upper section. Gatepiers linked by stepped quadrant walls to piers flanking lodges. Walls extending uphill to NE and downhill to S. LODGES: Outer walls advancing slightly through boundary walls towards road. Windows set high to road elevations. Deep-set, boarded doors to gate-facing elevations. Window set high to boundary-facing elevations. Advanced, full-height wallhead stack to cemetery-facing elevation of lodge to SE. 9-pane, fixed windows; swept, grey slate pyramidal roofs with double- ended finials; ashlar coped stack to rear of S lodge; cast-iron rainwater goods.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Currently used as a store for the cemetery keeper.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
J Thomas, MIDLOTHIAN RIAS GUIDE (1995) p31.
