Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street, Edinburgh

Laid out by David Cousin, opened 20th September 1846. Near rectangular-plan, split site cemetery. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble coped and stepped boundary walls enclosing and dividing site. Predominantly later 19th century head stones, several column memorials (urns surmounting some), central walled pend to middle of site, some gravestones now set in boundary wall, Cross war memorial on granite plinth to SE of site and notable pink sandstone gothic memorial, 1911, to Salverns. Modern single storey rendered building adjoining boundary wall. Entrance to NE with buttresses flanking and framing quadrant walls terminated by pilaster-flanked hoodmoulded arrowslit windows, with carved frieze capping breaking height of flanking walls.