Entrance Lodge, Walls, Piers, Gates And Railings At Portishead Burial Ground

ST 47 NE PORTISHEAD CLEVEDON ROAD (south side)

2/93 Entrance lodge, walls, piers, gates and railings at Portishead Burial Ground II

Entrance lodge, walls, piers, gates and railings. Mid Zig. Snecked limestone rubble with stone dressings, lodge has plain and fish-scale tiled roof with wrought iron crestings and finials to gables; limestone piers and cast iron railings and gates. Open lodge has front gable end with high pointed arched opening, roll-moulded, polished granite jamb-shafts with composite capitals, lancet to each side, bargeboards, gates with twisted uprights and spear finials. Left and right return glazed, 5 lights each, central one taller, trefoil-headed with small gable above; rear as front, without jamb shafts or gates, plainer mouldings. Limestone plinth and quoins, bellcote set diagonally on roof ridge with louvres and bellcast shape roof. Wall attached to each side of lodge, swept round to square pier, about 3 metres high, in vermiculated ashlar with triangular shaped top; wall about 1/2 metre high, extends about 80 metres to east, stepped to accommodate slope of ground, plain railings, principals with curved struts and knob finials, at east end a pair of similar gate piers, small gate with knob finials to uprights and horizontal strut; wall and railings extend about 90 metres to south west to similar terminal pier. South west and east boundaries of burial ground have plain railings only.

Listing NGR: ST4637975188