Gateway, Lodge And Adjoining Office At Salford Northern Cemetery

The gateway, lodge, and adjoining office at Salford Northern Cemetery were built in 1903 by the architectural firm Sharpe & Foster. Constructed from snecked stone with ashlar dressings, the building features a clay tile roof and applied timber-framing on the lodge. The gateway includes pedestrian entrances on either side, with a single-storey office to the left and a two-storey lodge to the right, designed in a Free Gothic style.

The gateway and pedestrian entrances are characterized by pointed arches, with a carved lion and unicorn positioned above the central arch, which is adorned with blind arcading. The entrance is flanked by cast-iron gates and topped with a bold conically roofed finial at the center. The lodge has a two-bay structure, featuring a square five-light mullion and transom bay window beneath a jettied first floor in the first bay, while the second bay includes three-light casements and five-light first floor casements. Each bay is gabled and has pierced bargeboards, along with side-wall chimney stacks.

The office section consists of four bays, with a six-light mullion and transom square bay to the left that has a blind basket-arched upper stage and a castellated parapet. Bays two and four have cusped openings with a continuous sill band. A commemorative plaque is located in bay three beneath an ogee arch. The structure features a coped parapet and gable, a gable chimney stack, a gabled dormer window, and decorative foiled panelling on the rear of the lodge.