Moodie Burial Place, Kirkhope Burial Ground, South Walls

17th century. Single storey, rectangular-plan mausoleum. Exposed rubble; dressed quoins and opening surrounds.

NE ELEVATION: round-headed doorway; roll-and-hollow moulded surround; rosettes and inscription in hollow; 'SOLI DEO LAVS HONOR ET GLORIA'. Triangular-headed window above door chamfered surrounds. Inserted armorial panel above; greatly weathered.

SE ELEVATION: 2 small windows below eaves; chamfered surrounds.

SW ELEVATION: 3 inscribed stones, greatly weathered: 2 heraldic panels; moulded frames; pediment with fleur-de-lys to left stone; graveslab below.

NW ELEVATION: plain elevation.

Fixed, replacement timber windows. Round-headed timber boarded door. Pitched roof; stone slates; crowstepped gables; square apex stone; curved skewputts with carved detail.

INTERIOR: flagged floor. Graveslab resting on floor; inscription includes 'Here Lyest James Robson' and dated '17. IR. N. 21'. Ledge built into SW gable wall. Replacement timber roof trusses.

GRAVEYARD

Rubble flagstone boundary wall with stone slab coping encloses rectangular-plan graveyard surrounding mausoleum. Pair of square-plan gatepiers with deep coping, tapered towards apex, above narrow band course to S (replacement timber gate). 3 identical piers (main gateway and pedestrian entrance) to W (main gate missing); metal pedestrian gate. Some early 18th century gravestones remain. Other monuments of interest include broken graveslab beside SE wall of mausoleum carved with skull and crossbone. Sandstone obelisk commemorating the crew of the St Leicestershire of Grimbsy who died as she went down, 28th January 1938. Numerous Naval granite gravestones for those who died during the World Wars. WWI memorial by Reginald Blomfield, circa 1925, dedicated to the sailors who died; tall granite crucifix on granite base and inscribed plinth. Bronze sword fixed to 2 faces. Cemetery extension to NW (still in use) with concrete walls and Ian Scott's bronze statue of a life-boatman in memory of the Longhope Life-Boat disaster is excluded from listing.