Greyfriars Burial Ground, Canal Street, Perth is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. Burial ground. 1 related planning application.

Greyfriars Burial Ground, Canal Street, Perth

WRENN ID: dim-landing-crimson
Grade: A
Local Planning Authority: Perth and Kinross
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 20 May 1965
Type: Burial ground
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Earliest stone dated 1580. Important Burial Ground containing nationally significant collection of 16th-, 17th-, 18th- and 19th century headstones, monuments and mausolea. Rubble boundary walls circa 1835; entrance gateway to N with squared ashlar gatepiers, corniced with ball-finial caps; footgate to right with 17th century deaths head sundial above.

Mausoleum, circa 1830, projecting inside boundary walls to left of entrance; Roman Doric pilasters supporting parapeted entablature with wreathed frieze. Later ornamental metal gates to pedestrian entrance at Tay Street.

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