Gate Lodge, Entrance Gates, Piers And Railings To East Finchley Cemetery

The following building shall be added:

TQ 2589 31-/23/10010

EAST END ROAD Gate lodge, entrance gates, piers and railings to East Finchley Cemetery

GV II

Gate lodge, gates, and railings to cemetery. 1854, to designs by Barnet and Birch. Kentish ragstone facing with stone dressings. Roofs of slate. 2 storeys. L-plan with one triple lancet to East End Road, one oriel to crosswing on return, and scattered fenestration to entrance range. Gothic Revival style. Entrance set in porch, boarded over at the time of writing, at join of wings; two-light window above lighting stair hall; moulded stack to return of crosswing, right return of entrance range and gable end of crosswing. Features of note include: triple lancet light to ground floor of crosswing with oriel above supported by moulded corbels. To left a gateway with pedestrian gap and broader carriageway; stepped coping and parapet. A low parapet wall extends from this to the south east terminating at east end of site in a pair of gatepiers framing a carriageway; that to left with pedestrian gap. Piers treated as setback buttresses. Metal gates to all openings. Stone piers and metal railings extend from low parapet wall attached to the north west corner of the lodge for a total of fourteen bays (railings to third bay interrupted), turning corner to the A406. Part of a group of mid-C19 buildings which includes the Nonconformist and Anglican chapels, East End Road (g.v.). Derelict at the time of inspection (June 1993).

Listing NGR: TQ2601789787