Eastern Cemetery Lodge, Arbroath Road, Dundee is a Grade B listed building in the Dundee City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 February 1965. Cemetery entrance, lodge.
Eastern Cemetery Lodge, Arbroath Road, Dundee
- WRENN ID
- proud-gateway-ridge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dundee City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1965
- Type
- Cemetery entrance, lodge
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
ENTRANCE AND LAYOUT: William Scott and David MacKenzie, dated 1863. Triple arched decorated gothic entrance to cemetery, ashlar treated with linseed oil. N and S elevations identical: nookshafted openings with mask label stops. Buttresses with trefoil-headed niches housing statuary; crocketted finials. Castellated parapet stepped up at centre to carry arms of Dundee.
Cast-iron gates bearing winged souls and gilded finials. Curving traceried screen walls terminating in square piers. Similar ashlar piers at N, by Lodge. Lower boundary walls.
NORTH LODGE, 1 OLD CRAIGIE ROAD: simple 3-bay lodge with central gable and attic lancet. Unfortunate lean-to porch, slate roof. Gable end stacks rebuilt. Windows sash and case 4-pane glazing pattern.
Monuments include:
JAMES SMEATON: (merchant, Panmure Works, Carnoustie) 1866, replica of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, a Corinthian-columned rotunda on square plinth. Cross finial.
KIRKLAND: (merchant), gothic trefoil-arcade on diminutive granite shafts carries piended stone cover. Style of James MacLaren.
CAMERON, DAVID AND ISABELLA: 1902. Square granite monument with draped urn. Notable sinuous art nouveau wrought-iron railings.
CHARLES BARRIE: (ship-owner and Lord Provost) granite monument modelled on the Cenotaph, with low boundary walls.
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