Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB16/08/002

Address :
St John's C of I Graveyard Graveyard Lane Off John Street Rathfriland Co Down BT34 2AH

Townland:
Cross

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Graveyard

Former Use
Graveyard

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
253/7

IG Ref:
J1994 3345

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Owner Category

Church - C of I

Exterior Description And Setting

Churchyard on SW side of Graveyard Lane (off John Street), SW of St John's Church. Entered by a pair of wrought-iron gates with twisted pointed dogbars and chamfered cuboidal finials to the top bars. Hung from strap-pointed concrete-block pillars. The space is delineated to three sides by hedges, and bounded to the lane by a random rubble wall. Immediately left on entry is a plot to Joseph Haslett (died 1870) and family. Its polished granite headstone is set in a brick-trimmed semicircular-headed recess in the boundary wall. The enclosed graveyard is grassed and still used for burials; it contains an assortment of gravestones. The small indecipherable ones are probably of 18th/early 19th C date (these are nearest the entrance), the cut stone ones of mid 19th C, and the finely dressed/ polished ones of later 19th and 20th C date.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This church yard is associated with St John’s Parish Church (HB16/08/001) which lies to the North. Construction of St John’s was began in 1730. This graveyard was recorded on the HMBB survey card of 1970 - 'Pre 1776. A walled graveyard containing slate slabs and other memorials. Earliest headstone deciphered is dated 1779.' Shown on 1776 Mead Estate Map. Primary Sources: 1. Meade Estate: A Map of the Town of Rathfriland (1776) Now in Norfolk and Norwich Record Office. Secondary sources: 1. HMBB survey card, Built Heritage, 5 - 33 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LA

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Of local interest primarily and without any features of special significance.

General Comments

Date of Survey

01 June 1999