Burial Ground, Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey

Cemetery to NE of Sweetheart Abbey including tombstones and Stewart family enclosure.

STEWART FAMILY ENCLOSURE: dated 1856. Rectangular walled enclosure with pedimented gateway bearing Stewart family arms. Light sandstone rubble; roughly squared large stones with smaller pinning stones; red sandstone ashlar dressings. Ashlar coping. Droved quoins. Cast-iron gate. Red sandstone and marble monuments inside. Circa 1960 low-walled extension to N with simpler gravestones.

GRAVESTONES: dating from circa 1820 onwards. Representative collection of 19th century and later headstones. Predominantly red sandstone; some marble. Many stones previously limewashed. More monumental stones include: George Alexander Nicholson, 1824, scroll-flanked and pedimented; Captain James Murray, 1834, Doric pilasters and urn finial; John Regan Riddell, 1849, obelisk-topped with coat of arms and gothic detailing; James Kingan and family, 1932, decorative pediment and cornice, white plaster with black lettering.