Newington Old Burial Ground, 31 East Preston Street, Edinburgh

Laid out 1820. L-plan burial ground. Main entrance on East Preston Street; original cast-iron carriage gates and tall droved ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps; pedestrian gateway and cast-iron gate adjoining to right. High surrounding rubble walls; railings to NE corner with East Preston Street and Dalkeith Road;

Wall monuments and free-standing stones, predominantly Greek Revival; Tudor style burial enclosures to external walls; decorative enclosures to N of watchtower containing graves of John Scott (died 1829) and Hugh Handyside (died 1833); iron railing mortsafe enclosure to S wall to grave of Rev. William Limont (died 1833).

WATCH TOWER: dated 1820; 2-stage, circular-plan, corbelled and castellated watchtower with external staircase set in re-entrant angle of boundary walls; doorway at ground; 2 single windows and further doorway at 1st floor.