Gates, Piers And Railings To Camberwell Old Cemetery

SOUTHWARK

TQ3475SE FOREST HILL ROAD 636-1/61/343 (South West side) 31/05/96 Gates, piers and railings to Camberwell Old Cemetery

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Gates, piers and railings to Camberwell Old Cemetery. 1856. Ragstone with smooth stone dressings; cast and wrought-iron. Gothic Revival style to match the Gate Lodge (qv). Main entrance of 4 piers defining a single carriageway with walkways to either side. The piers are square in section, with set back buttresses to front and rear of each; the corners of each pier chamfered with run out stops. Pier finishes in facing gable; to return of gable blind, diminutive dormers terminating in fleur-de-lis; at each corner of gable a carved head. Railings and gates have lower rails forming a frieze filled with trefoiled tracery and quatrefoils; between uprights are trefoiled tracery. Railings debouch to main road, forming a shallow east-facing forecourt with outer piers, which are simpler in design than those framing the gates, lacking buttresses and heads. Railings to north step down in section to terminate in a pier of simple piers. Railings step up to south, terminating in piers and railings which turn the corner to Wood Vale. All railings braced by elegant curved rails to cemetery and set in low stone plinth with simply chamfered coping. Railings have been replaced in sections to match the original design.

Listing NGR: TQ3499674215