Newington Cemetery, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh

Newington Cemetery, begun in 1846 by David Cousin and extended circa 1870, is situated on Dalkeith Road in Edinburgh. The main entrance, located on Dalkeith Road, features Tudor-style gatepiers, a high surrounding wall, and an entrance lodge situated to the right of the gates. The cemetery's layout combines linear and curvilinear elements, with the upper level divided below its midpoint by a long terrace wall containing catacombs, accessible by steps leading to the lower graveyard.

The lodge at 222 Dalkeith Road is a single-storey and attic, three-bay Gothic building. It has a rectangular plan with a side canted bay and a wing to the rear. The lodge is constructed from coursed, stugged yellow sandstone with droved dressings, including a base course, hoodmoulds, and an eaves cornice; fleur-de-lys finials top the building. The principal, south elevation incorporates a gabled porch at its centre, featuring a tall, roll-moulded pointed arch supported on nook shafts with bell capitals, a hoodmould, and label stops. A blank escutcheon is positioned in the gablehead, and flanking windows are present. The doorway has chamfered reveals, housing a boarded two-leaf door with a leaded geometric fanlight, and a lancet window is placed above the door. The east and west elevations have a canted bay window at ground level, flanked by set-back buttresses reaching the height of the parapet and featuring saw tooth coping. A Tudor arched window is situated at attic level, also with associated hoodmould label stops. The rear, north elevation, features a single-storey wing to the outer left and a gabled projecting bay in the re-entrant angle, with a Tudor arched window at attic level. A modern rendered addition with a flat roof is located to the centre left. The lodge has plate glass sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey fish-scale slates with an ashlar ridge coping, including ashlar coping to the gables, and the chimney stack comprises four clustered stacks, corniced, diamond aligned, with a gablehead stack.

The catacombs, facing southwest below the terrace, are of Romanesque style, linear in plan, featuring a central vault with connecting walls and end pavilions. Stone stairs at each end provide access to both the upper and lower sections of the graveyard. Built with stugged and squared sandstone and cherry caulking, the catacombs have a bracket cornice above the round headed doors, a string course, and an ashlar coping to the parapet. Pilasters with angle nook-shafts are also incorporated. The southwest elevation showcases the main vault, featuring a round-headed doorway supported on nook shafts with cushion capitals, a moulded archivolt, a cast-iron gate, an interior rib vault, and a wall running to the left and right, with piended caps above pilaster bay divisions, and a parapet with ashlar coping. Single pavilions are located at either end, incorporating blind round headed doors with nook shafts bearing floral capitals and flanked pilasters with cushion capital angle nook-shafts. Arcaded detailing is visible on the caps, and the parapet is shaped above the door.

The high enclosing walls, approximately 7-8 feet in height, are constructed of sandstone rubble, originally rendering on the Dalkeith Road-facing elevation. Paired ashlar gatepiers are situated to the left and right of the centre gate, incorporating low plinths and railings between. These gatepiers are chamfered and droved, with a cap supported on a cornice, a quatrefoil freize, and crenellations above.