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Lodge and gates at Alnwick Cemetery
The following building shall be added:- SOUTHROAD NU 11 SE (East side) 905-/8/10003 Lodge and gates at Alnwick Cemetery II Lodge and attached gates. 1856. Designed by F R Wilson and built by Armstrong and Hudspeth. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Lodge has slate roof with raised coped gables and plain kneelers. 2 wall stacks. L-plan. Single storey plus attic. Street front has a gable wing to the right with a projecting canted bay window with 4 pointed arch lights, and a stone roof Above a 3-light window with a taller central light and plain sashes. To the left a stepped rubble wall linked to a small single storey outside. Entrance front has projecting 2-storey porch with chamfered opening and inner door. Above a small square casement. To the left a snuff square window, now converted into a doorway. South elevation has projecting gable wing with a pair of plain sashes on the ground floor and 2 similar windows above. Gates, attached to the north-west comer of the lodge is a low wall with a chamfered open panel with iron railings, and a square ashlar gatepier with an octagonal cap. A pair of iron gates and then a similar gatepier and beyond a similar wall with an open panel and iron railings. Included for group value.
---- Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury - Saturday 13 December 1856 ----
Consecration of the New Cemetery at Alnwick.—On Thursday, tho Bishop of Durham accompanied by number of the clergy of the district proceeded the new burial ground for the purpose of consecrating it. It is situated one mile from Alnwick, on the west side of the road to Newcastle. The entrance is through a Gothic arch, with smaller oneon each side, resembling the gable end of house, and looking rather more curious than imposing. On the left hand is the residence of the keeper of the cemetery, and a little to the west thereof is the chapel for the Nonconformists. Directly opposite is the chapel forthose who profess the established religion. They are all built in the early English style. The east window of the north chapel has geometrical tracery, and there is pretty campanile attached. The workmanship of the buildings is very good, and was done by Messrs Armstrong and Hudspeth, the contractors, after designs by F. R. Wilson, Esq., president, architect of Alnwick Castle.