Entrance Arch, Lambhill Cemetery, 1035 Balmore Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Arch, railings, gates.
Entrance Arch, Lambhill Cemetery, 1035 Balmore Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- eastward-kitchen-wax
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Arch, railings, gates
- OS grid reference
- NS 582 700
- Coordinates
- 55.90249, -4.26933
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The entrance arch at Lambhill Cemetery, designed by James Sellars in 1880, is a severe classical triumphal arch made of cream sandstone ashlar, featuring banded courses on the roadside.
The monumental archway has a round-headed, keystoned design with a moulded surround and an impost course. It is recessed at the center and flanked by Ionic columns in antis. The outer piers have pilastered panels carved above the impost level, adorned with simple oval motifs. A full entablature with a cornice and a substantial blocking course is recessed at the center. The rear elevation is simpler, with a moulded archway at the center, narrow piers on either side, and a blocking course that is flush with the wallpane. The former rectangular-plan lodges, which were slightly advanced from the triumphal arch towards the roadside, were demolished in 1991, leaving remnants to dwarf wall level flanking the arch.
The gates and railings, dating from around 1880, consist of decorative two-leaf wrought- and cast-iron gates featuring scroll ornament and embossed panels with Biblical text. The railings are similarly detailed, with pilasters and a paterae frieze.
Local climate
Entrance Arch, Lambhill Cemetery, 1035 Balmore Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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