Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

DALRY ROAD, DALRY CEMETERY, GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGSLB26733

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
09/02/1993
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 23640 72550
Coordinates
323640, 672550

Description

Landscaped by David Cousin, 1846.

GATEWAYS: much altered to Dalry Road; decapitated orthogonal gatepiers with massive sawtooth coped buttresses; flanked by square piers with moulded crenellations. Rear entrance to Dundee Street with 4 square piers as above. Plain wrought-iron gates.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: of squared, snecked and stugged sandstone on ashlar plinth; semi-circular coping; lower coped section in front of lodge filled with iron arrowhead railings and wrought panel. Milestone on NW wall.

TERRACE: perron stair to buttressed terrace with balustrade and catacombs below; pointed-arch entrance to vaults flanked by buttressed octagonal piers either side of stair; each vault lit by demi-lune skylight in upper level of terrace (whole in poor condition).

Statement of Special Interest

Originally known as the Dalry Necropolis, a property of the Metropolitan Cemetery Association, who bought the six acres of land from the Walker family of Dalry House. A Mausoleum or Funerary Chapel is shown to SE of the catacombs on some plans, but was never built. General Sir Neil Douglas (C-in-C Scotland) and Sir Alexander Burns (distinguished traveller) are buried here. There is a lodge listed separately.

References

Bibliography

EDINBURGH ART JOURNAL 1864; APSD; THE DALRY NECROPOLIS Edinburgh Room; A Boyle RUINS AND ROMANS; EDINBURGH'S NEGLECTED HERITAGE Edinburgh 1985; DALRY-HAYMARKET THE STORY OF A PARISH; Gifford et al. EDINBURGH p506.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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