Lancaster Cemetery Lodge

LANCASTER

SD46SE QUERNMORE ROAD 1685-1/1/249 (North side (off)) Lancaster Cemetery Lodge

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Lodge to Lancaster Cemetery, which was opened in 1855. Probably by Edward Paley. Squared coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. Chamfered plinth. T-plan, with cross-wing to left of 2 storeys plus attic, and range to right of one storey plus attic. Gothic Revival style. Cross-wing gable wall of one bay, with a canted bay window which has 4-lights with transoms and trefoiled heads to the upper lights. The 1st-floor window is of 2 lights with transom, with trefoiled upper lights and with a trefoiled opening below a pointed hoodmould which is carried around the wing as a string course. The gable is coped with kneelers. In the angle with the main range is a single-storey porch which has a parapet decorated with blind foiled recesses. The doorway is moulded and pointed with a hoodmould, and the door has wrought-iron strap hinges. To the right the main range has a window similar to that on the 1st floor of the cross-wing, and a hipped dormer lighting the upper storey. The right-hand gable wall has a coping with kneelers, and a canted single-storey bay window. The left-hand return wall of the cross-wing has 2 hipped attic dormers, and the rear wall has a chimney.

Listing NGR: SD4907261756