Tyne and Wear HER(8020): Hebburn Cemetery, arch, walls, piers, gates and railings - Details
8020
S Tyneside
Hebburn Cemetery, arch, walls, piers, gates and railings
Hebburn
NZ36SW
Monument
Arch
Early Modern
C19
Structure
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
3066
6386
NZ30666386
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 2/80; NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project