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

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Arch

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

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:
3066

Northing:
6386

Grid Reference:
NZ30666386

Lats/Lons:

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