Burial Ground, Colinton Parish Church, Dell Road, Edinburgh

The Burial Ground Extension at Colinton Parish Church, located on Dell Road in Edinburgh, mainly dates from the 18th century. It features a rubble enclosure wall with ashlar dressings and a segmentally arched gateway leading to Dell, accompanied by a small gatehouse. The structure has one window on the gable front and a slated roof with a large ashlar end stack at the rear.

Inside, there is a good series of family burial enclosures that are stepped along the slope, showcasing droved and channelled ashlar fronts with architraved pedimented doorways, one of which includes a well-crafted wrought iron gate. The Inglis vault features a Neo-Greek unfluted distyle in antis Doric front.

The burial ground also contains several sculptured tombstones, with many dating from the mid-18th century. Notably, there is a mausoleum for James Gillespie, who died in 1797, which has a channelled ashlar pedimented front, a semicircular arched entrance, and a stone slabbed roof.