Gateway and walling of Quaker Graveyard, Belfast Road, Antrim, Co Antrim

Four boundary walls of masonry and brick construction, with an arched gateway on the north side, enclosing a graveyard of roughly square plan. North boundary wall is of basalt rubble with later reticulated pointing; stonework roughly coursed to upper portion to left of the gateway; angle topped copings of Tardree granite; each extremity of coping broken off and repaired with cement. Left-hand extremity of wall abuts a circular pier of roughly coursed basalt rubble with a hump topped sandstone capstone. Gateway placed near right-hand end: breaks forward slightly from the wall and rises above it with a rectangular parapet; built of basalt rubble, with roughly chamfered edges; swept coping, material uncertain. Gateway contains a slightly pointed arch dressed with smooth cement render, with chamfered edge; iron railed gate, decoratively treated with fleur-de-lys finials, set below level of pavement, down one step; step of concrete. Above the arch is a modern rectangular bronze plaque inscribed 'Circa 1685. The Quakers Graveyard Moylinny. Burial place of the Reford family'. East boundary wall is of basalt rubble, with reticulated pointing; smooth cement rendered moulded coping of curved form, cracked in places and crudely repaired with cement. Rear, or south, boundary wall is of basalt rubble and fieldstones with original lime mortar pointing; smooth cement rendered flat coping; top of wall steps down in sections towards the west. West boundary wall is partly of stone and partly of brickwork. Left-hand extremity is of basalt rubble with granite coping, returning from the north wall; this portion terminates at an abutting derelict basalt rubble nib wall with a brick base which forms a retaining wall to the front pavement. To the right of the retaining wall the west boundary is of basalt rubble for a portion, surmounted by a crumbling brick wall with basalt rubble copings; remainder of wall to right is of old brickwork on a basalt base; some modern brickwork used to repair wall at one point; cement rendered coping of humped form; wall overgrown with creeper. Interior walls of graveyard are of basalt rubble. Ground inside uneven, grassed over, with some mature trees; short concrete path immediately inside entrance gateway; some low iron-railed grave plots, but headstones and monuments are of no special architectural interest. SETTING: The burial ground stands facing the main road set back from it by the public pavement. Facing it on the other side of the road is a modern housing development. To the west is rough ground at a lower level to the graveyard, overgrown with bushes and mature trees. To the south is a patch of rough ground, grassed over, with mature trees. To the east is a lane giving access to houses sited to the north and north-west. Ground to south and ground to west are separated by a basalt rubble wall which abuts the south-west corner of the rear boundary wall.