Rosebank Cemetery, Pilrig Street, Edinburgh

Rosebank Cemetery, located on Pilrig Street in Edinburgh, was laid out by David Cousin and opened on 20th September 1846. It features a near rectangular plan and is a split site cemetery. The boundary walls are made of squared and snecked sandstone rubble, which are coped and stepped to enclose and divide the site. The cemetery predominantly contains later 19th century headstones, along with several column memorials, some topped with urns. There is a central walled pend in the middle of the site, and some gravestones have been set into the boundary wall. A Cross war memorial stands on a granite plinth to the southeast of the site, alongside a notable pink sandstone gothic memorial from 1911 dedicated to the Salverns. Additionally, there is a modern single-storey rendered building that adjoins the boundary wall. The entrance is located to the northeast, featuring buttresses that flank and frame quadrant walls, which are terminated by pilaster-flanked hoodmoulded arrowslit windows. A carved frieze caps the walls, breaking their height.