Gate Lodge, Southern Necropolis, 316 Caledonia Road, Glasgow

The Gate Lodge at the Southern Necropolis, located at 316 Caledonia Road in Glasgow, was designed by Charles Wilson in 1848. This two-stage, castellated Romanesque structure features a three-stage stair tower on the east side and is constructed from stugged ashlar sandstone, which shows signs of erosion due to water ingress. The building has a two-part base course with a lower band that is battered, and an impost course that separates the stages. A tall semicircular vehicular entrance pend is present, along with narrow round-arched windows that have architraved hoodmoulds and label stops. The wallhead and stair tower are topped with a crenellated parapet supported by beakhead corbels. The lower sections of the flanking wall include square-section piers that rise above the lodge, featuring blind cross-shaped arrowslits.

On the north elevation, there are paired nookshafts on either side of the entrance arch, adorned with courses of zig-zag banding, naihead, and billet moulding at the arch head. Above, arcaded windows are supported by engaged colonnettes at the mullions, with nailhead ornamentation on the arch heads. The south elevation lacks mouldings on the entrance arch, with smaller windows flanking it and additional arcaded windows above, similar to those on the north elevation. A canted oriel window is positioned over the entrance pend, and the building has a stone slate roof. The stair tower on the right features a window on each stage.

The ground-level windows were bricked up in 2000, but remnants of former plate glass sash and case windows can still be seen elsewhere. The flat roof, which serves as a viewing platform, is currently roofless and has exposed beams. The parapet is finished with semicircular coping, and there are boarded two-leaf doors leading to the pend.

Inside, the lodge is in a ruinous state, with the lathing of the walls exposed. Originally, there were two rooms on the ground floor to the west of the pend and one room with a stair to the east, though the stair is now missing. Moulded architraves remain around the arcaded window on the north side, complete with deep embrasures, and fireplaces can also be found within the interior.