Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
Lodge to Cemetary
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Location
Situated immediately inside the gates of the cemetery on Ruabon Road.
History
The cemetery was established 1874-6 and its layout was by Yeaman Strachan, with William Turner as architect of the lodge and chapels.
Exterior
Rock faced random rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof with terracotta cresting and finials. 2 storeyed, L-plan with gabled porch in angle with left hand wing. Shallow segmentally arched doorway and pierced bargeboards to porch gable. 3-light wood mullioned and transomed window with small upper panes on each floor in the gable of this wing, with half-hipped roof over. Similar windows in north-facing gable, and in rear. Axial and end wall stacks.
Reason for designation
Group value with cemetery chapels, and gates, gatepiers and railings to cemetery.
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