Hebburn Cemetery, arch, walls, piers, gates and railings

Hebburn Cemetery, arch, walls, piers, gates and railings

HER Number
8020
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Hebburn Cemetery, arch, walls, piers, gates and railings
Place
Hebburn
Map Sheet
NZ36SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Boundary
Site Type: Specific
Boundary Wall
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
This structure was listed Grade II in 1985 with the following description:
'Cemetery entrance 1890 by Frederick West of Hebburn for Hedworth, Monkton and Jarrow Burial Board. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Entrance arch with low quadrant walls to pedestrian gates; at the right the wall continues in front of the entrance lodge. Gothic style. Arch is gabled, flanked by but- tresses, gabled turrets; plinth and quoins. Walls have plinth and chamfered coping. 5 octagonal stone piers, splayed at foot, for 2 pedestrian gates and terminating wall in front of house, which have tall ridged coping with finial. 2 cast iron piers in front of house. Gates and railings; cast and wrought iron, by Milton Iron Works (order for gate design No 395) spear headed and decorated. Founders' plate on railings : McDowell and Steven, Glasgow.' LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
430660
Northing
563860
Grid Reference
NZ430660563860
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 2/80;
NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project;
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1025196