Moodie Burial Place, Kirkhope Burial Ground, South Walls

The Moodie Burial Place is a 17th-century, single-story, rectangular-plan mausoleum located within Kirkhope Burial Ground, South Walls. It is constructed of exposed rubble with dressed quoins and surrounds to the openings, demonstrating group value as a significant local monument.

The northeast elevation features a round-headed doorway with a roll-and-hollow moulded surround, rosettes, and the inscription 'SOLI DEO LAVS HONOR ET GLORIA'. A triangular-headed window sits above the door, both with chamfered surrounds. An inserted, highly weathered armorial panel is positioned above the window. The southeast elevation has two small windows below the eaves, also with chamfered surrounds. The southwest elevation displays three greatly weathered inscribed stones, including two heraldic panels with moulded frames; the left stone features a pediment with a fleur-de-lys. A graveslab is situated immediately below the stones. The northwest elevation is plain.

The mausoleum has replacement timber windows and a round-headed, timber-boarded door. The pitched roof is covered in stone slates with crowstepped gables, a square apex stone, and curved skewputts with carved detail.

Inside, the mausoleum has a flagged floor. A graveslab rests on the floor, containing the inscription 'Here Lyest James Robson' and the date '17. IR. N. 21'. A ledge is built into the southwest gable wall. The roof features replacement timber trusses.

The surrounding graveyard is enclosed by a rubble flagstone boundary wall with stone slab coping. A pair of square-plan gatepiers with deep, tapered coping and a replacement timber gate mark the southern entrance. Three identical piers, formerly a main gateway, stand to the west, with a missing main gate and a metal pedestrian gate. Several early 18th-century gravestones remain. Other monuments of interest include a broken graveslab with a carved skull and crossbones found alongside the southeast wall of the mausoleum. A sandstone obelisk commemorates the crew of the St Leicestershire of Grimbsy who perished on 28th January 1938. Numerous Naval granite gravestones mark the graves of those who died during the World Wars. A World War I memorial, circa 1925, designed by Reginald Blomfield, commemorates sailors who lost their lives; the memorial consists of a tall granite crucifix on a granite base with an inscribed plinth and a bronze sword fixed to two faces. A modern cemetery extension to the northwest, currently in use, along with Ian Scott’s bronze statue of a lifeboatman commemorating the Longhope Life-Boat disaster, are excluded from the listing.