South Entrance Including Gates, Piers And Railings To Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

The south entrance, including gates, piers, and railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, was built in 1856 by Thomas Moore. This entrance features painted cast-iron piers and railings, with ashlar piers supporting the flanking walls and brick dwarf walls topped with ashlar coping. The design is in the Perpendicular style. The open octagonal cast-iron gate piers have a central ornamental band and brattished decoration on the high swept coping, which is adorned with bud finials. The gates include dog bars beneath a pierced quatrefoil band and lozenge-shaped bud finials. Serpentine walls with chamfered ashlar coping support the railings, which ramp up to the piers and feature a similar pierced band above shorter dog bars, along with matching finials. Painted ashlar octagonal piers flank the serpentine entrance walls and also display brattished ornament on the high coping.