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
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
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