Glasgow, 316 Caledonia Road, Southern Necropolis, Gate-lodge
Gate Lodge (19th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, 316 Caledonia Road, Southern Necropolis, Gate-lodge
Classification Gate Lodge (19th Century)
Canmore ID 44246
Site Number NS56SE 113.01
NGR NS 59511 63476
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44246
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
2-stage, castellated Romanesque gate lodge with 3-stage stair tower to E side. Stugged ashlar sandstone, evidencing erosion from water ingress. 2-part base course, lower band battered. Impost course dividing stages. Tall semicircular vehicular entrance pend. Narrow round-arched windows with architraved hoodmould and label stops. Crenellated parapet on beakhead corbels to wallhead and to stair tower. Lower sections of flanking wall with square section piers rising above framing lodge, with blind cross-shaped arrowslits. Windows at ground bricked up (2000) but some vestiges of former plate glass sash and case windows elsewhere. Flat roof / viewing platform (currently roofless with exposed beams). Semicircular coping to parapet. Boarded 2-leaf doors to pend.
Formerly furnished with ornamental gates. It is thought that the lodge may have served as a waiting room, cemetery company's offices and gardeners' bothy. (Historic Scotland)
