Main Lodge, Lawnswood Cemetery

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SE23NE 714-1/6/940 05/08/76

LEEDS OTLEY ROAD, Lawnswood (West side) Main Lodge, Lawnswood Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: OTLEY ROAD, Lawnswood (West side) West Lodge (Registrar's House) Lawnswood Cemetery)

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Registrar's house, now lodge. c1876. By George Corson. Enlarged 1915, by WS Braithwaite. Coursed squared gritstone, red tile roof. In Vernacular Revival style. 2 storeys, the upper storey in the roof, 2 bays, L-plan, a low hipped-roof entrance bay with 4-panel door left. Central entrance, left gabled bay projects as a short wing with 2 cross windows to ground floor and a 3-light mullioned window above; a sundial with inscribed date '1907' in the gable. A tall 4-flue stack with cylindrical shafts left, a 2-flue stack right, rear of ridge. Right return: large 6-light mullion and transom window to ground floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. George Corson designed the lodge with board room, retiring room and 'dead house' and outbuildings at the main entrance to the cemetery in 1875; the 1907 date suggests extensive re-ordering of this building, perhaps by the architect of the 1905 crematorium.

Listing NGR: SE2686839052