Cemetery lodge, gate piers, gates and flanking walls

Cemetery lodge, entrance walls and gates, dated 1874 and designed by G G Hoskins in Gothic style.

The lodge is constructed of tooled and snecked Horton bank sandstone with Dunhouse stone dressings, topped with Welsh slate roofs. The entrance piers and walls are of ashlar sandstone and sandstone blocks.

The lodge comprises an L-shaped plan with a two-storey north-south range and an attached narrower single-storey east-west range, with a canted porch occupying the angle between them. A 20th-century rectangular extension extends to the north-west. The curvilinear cemetery entrance features a central carriage opening flanked on each side by a pedestrian opening, with flanking wing walls and an additional section of walling to the north side.

The south elevation displays a two-storey gabled left end bay with a two-light pointed-arched ground floor window set within a polychrome surround and a blind moulded trefoil-headed opening at first floor level, which contains a large stone-carved monogram dated 1874. An upper string course frames the window as a hoodmould. The left corner is chamfered and incorporates a rectangular canted window; the right corner is understood to be similarly detailed. The right end bay has a two-light pointed-arched window within a polychrome surround. The canted gabled porch between the ranges is similarly detailed and features a pointed-arched entrance with stopped hoodmould and string-course rising to the apex, above which is an octagonal opening with cusped tracery. Tall external chimney stacks appear on the left and right returns, with a ridge stack to the north-south range. All chimney stacks are rectangular and stepped with vertical and horizontal banding and moulded caps. The gabled bay of the rear elevation has stone verges and a stone finial, with a circular quatrefoil opening to the apex. The pitched roofs are finished in Welsh fish-scale slate beneath a moulded eaves cornice. The gables display triangular and round-lobed trefoil finials, moulded kneelers and stone verges with similarly-styled stone finials.

The North Road entrance comprises a wide central carriage opening flanked by square ashlar gate piers with chamfered bases and shafts and large moulded pyramidal caps with octagonal domed finials. They are fitted with double ornate scrolled and foliate wrought-iron gates, identical in detail to adjacent original wrought-iron railings. The carriage entrance is flanked on each side by a pedestrian entrance with identical gate piers and wrought-iron gates. Attached curvilinear sections of walling approximately four courses high carry convex coping stones and lengths of original wrought-iron railings, terminating in identical piers. An additional section of walling with chamfered blocked openings extends to the north before terminating at an identical pier.