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

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Description

Greyfriars Burial Ground, located on Canal Street in Perth, is an important burial ground with its earliest stone dated 1580. It contains a nationally significant collection of headstones, monuments, and mausolea from the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The boundary walls, made of rubble, were constructed around 1835. The northern entrance features squared ashlar gatepiers topped with cornices and ball-finial caps, along with a footgate to the right that has a 17th-century death's head sundial above it.

Inside the boundary walls, to the left of the entrance, is a mausoleum built around 1830. This mausoleum is adorned with Roman Doric pilasters that support a parapeted entablature featuring a wreathed frieze. Additionally, there are later ornamental metal gates at the pedestrian entrance on Tay Street.

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