Boundary Wall And Gate Piers, Gate Lodge With Pavilion, Seafield Cemetery, Seafield Place, Edinburgh

This is a late 19th-century gate lodge with a pavilion, boundary wall, and gate piers, located within Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh. The lodge is an L-plan, two-story building with an entrance tower in the re-entrant angle and a single-story pavilion projecting to the northwest. It is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings and Scottish Renaissance detailing, featuring a base course, a corbelled course between the ground and first floors, a droved band course with an eaves cornice, rusticated quoins, and decoratively barge-boarded gables.

The southeast elevation has three bays: the central bay features an entrance tower flanked by a projecting gable to the right, and a single bay to the left. A panelled door is set within a stop-chamfered surround and topped with a stylised segmental pediment. A small bipartite window sits above the door. A canted bay window is present on the ground floor of the right bay, with a single opening above. A narrow rectangular ground floor opening is recessed in the left bay. The northeast elevation consists of two bays, with a gable on the right. A narrow rectangular ground floor opening is on the left, and a canted window with a single window above is on the right bay. A single-story, two-windowed wing is set back and projects to the right. The northwest elevation features a single bay with a projecting gable, housing a panelled door on the ground floor and a small square window above. The southwest elevation has a small bipartite window with a segmental pediment on the ground floor of the entrance tower.

The windows are timber casements with three panes, with canted windows incorporating six panes flanked by three-pane casements. Principal first-floor windows are also six-pane casements, and the bipartite openings have coloured, leaded panes. The roof is felt, with an ogee shape on the entrance tower topped with a lead ball finial. Decorative barge-boarding features foliate scrolls and sea creature motifs at the ends of the northwest gable. Corniced wallhead stacks are made of squared and snecked sandstone. Cast-iron downpipes have decorative top-hoppers. The interior was not inspected in 1995.

The pavilion is a single-story, square-plan garden building adjoining the rear gateway, but is abutted by a later greenhouse, built of squared and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins. It features a door and window on the southeast elevation, a blocked opening on the northeast elevation, and a central oculus with a raised margin on the southwest elevation. It has an ogee felt roof with a lead ball finial.

The boundary wall is of squared and snecked sandstone with semicircular ashlar coping. The main entrance features quadrant-flanked gate piers in a Scottish Renaissance style, with four square-section gate piers constructed of droved ashlar, each with pulvinated bands and a cornice with ball-topped pyramidal finials (foliate carving to the front of the piers) resting on cushioned feet, though balls are now missing from the outer piers. An identical pier is located between the garden railings and the boundary wall. The rear entrance has a pair of square-section, droved ashlar sandstone gate piers, channelled and corniced with pedimented ball finials (a ball is missing from the left pier). Decorative cast-iron gates and railings are also present.