Dalry Cemetery, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 February 1993. Cemetery gatepiers and boundary walls.

Dalry Cemetery, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
ghost-cinder-merlin
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 February 1993
Type
Cemetery gatepiers and boundary walls
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Landscaped by David Cousin, 1846.

GATEWAYS: much altered to Dalry Road; decapitated orthogonal gatepiers with massive sawtooth coped buttresses; flanked by square piers with moulded crenellations. Rear entrance to Dundee Street with 4 square piers as above. Plain wrought-iron gates.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: of squared, snecked and stugged sandstone on ashlar plinth; semi-circular coping; lower coped section in front of lodge filled with iron arrowhead railings and wrought panel. Milestone on NW wall.

TERRACE: perron stair to buttressed terrace with balustrade and catacombs below; pointed-arch entrance to vaults flanked by buttressed octagonal piers either side of stair; each vault lit by demi-lune skylight in upper level of terrace (whole in poor condition).

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