Old Cemetery, Knab Road, Lerwick is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Cemetery. 1 related planning application.

Old Cemetery, Knab Road, Lerwick

WRENN ID
muffled-corridor-candle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 August 1996
Type
Cemetery
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Early 19th century. Triangular cemetery with 3-bay classical arched entrance gateway at N corner. Cement-rendered and lined rubble boundary wall, partially with droved ashlar cope. Droved ashlar entrance gateway comprising segmental-arched carriage gate at centre gate; coped with stepped block pediment above, flanked by lower, slightly recessed pedestrian gateways.

Variety of grave enclosures comprising cast-iron railings on droved ashlar copes, lining E and S walls and flanking path along W wall. Monument to Laurenson family in enclosure no 12, comprising marble round-arched memorial slabs set in Romanesque arcaded red sandstone recesses in ashlar-coped stugged sandstone wall.

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