With Boundary Walls And Railings, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh

David Bryce, 1847; extended by T Aikman Swan, 1924. 12 ACRE NECROPOLIS FOR Edinburgh Southern Cemetery Company, opened 15th May 1847. Series of Monuments laid out in regular blocks divided by gravel paths, symmetrically disposed along S-N axis. Comprises:

1. LODGE - see separate listing of 60 Grange Road.

2. GATES, GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: GRANGE ROAD AND BEAUFORT ROAD (N BOUNDARY): high coped rubble wall with pediments to wall monuments visible from street; 2 large polished ashlar gatepiers (adjoining lodge to outer left) with pedestals, cornices and pyramidal coping; decorative cast-iron carriage gates with anthemion motifs and barleysugar spearhead finials; railings mounted on low boundary wall to left linking to pedestrial gateway in same style, flanked by crested cast-iron gatepiers; railing continuing round into Lovers' Loan.

LOVERS' LOAN (E BOUNDARY): low rubble boundary wall with substantial ashlar coping to outer right, surmounted by 8 panels of railing (detailed as gates above) with decorative crested cast-iron piers (detailed as pedestrian gatepiers above). High rubble boundary wall to remainder of Lovers' Loan.

S AND W BOUNDARIES: high coped rubble walls.

1. VAULTS (N ELEVATION): symmetrical, pavaillioned elongated single storey range of vaults, blanked to outer extremities and earthed above. Polished ashlar. Base course; wallhead cornice; corniced parapet; buttresses; central barrel-vaulted pend with gated chambers leading off; nook-shafted entrance with roll-moulded arch, carved masque label stops, and blank rectangular tablet above; dog-leg staircases flanking.

Smaller round-arched doorways in similar style to chambers at pavilions and centres of flanking ranges; decorative cast-iron grilles in same style as entrance gates (see above). Trefoil oculi in remaining bays.

1. MONUMENTS- large number of wall and free-standing predominantly gothic and classical in style, including: THOMAS CHALMERS (D 1847): S McCashen, sculptor; coped ashlar wall with bracketted commemorative slab, and smaller slabs to other members of Chalmers' family.

DICK LAUDER MONUMENT: free-standing gabled ashlar monument, principally to Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (d 1848); 5 pointed arches with chevron mouldings and contrasting polished grantie columns; inscriptions on white marble behind arches. Cast-iron enclosure railings.

WILLIAM STUART (d 1868): T Thomas, sculptor; coped wall monument with broken obelisks flanking carved palm tree.

ANN DRYSDALE: J Howie, sculpture; full-size female figure with one hand on heart, the other resting on an urn.

McCALLUM MONUMENT: principally to Hugh McCallum (d 1937); full-size female figure holding wreath in left hand, leaning against monumental slab with carved foliage, lyres and swag.