Hollinwood Cemetery Roman Road Hollins Oldham
BOROUGH OF OLDHAM HOLLINGWOOD (sic) CEMETERY - TO BUILDERS. Persons desirous of tendering for the different works required in the ERECTION OF THREE MORTUARY CHAPELS, REGISTRAR’S HOUSE and OFFICE and BOUNDARY WALLS and ENTRANCE GATES to the Cemetery in Lime Lane Hollins may inspect the plans and specification and obtain bills of quantities at the office of the architects, Messrs Potts Pickup and Dixon, 18 Clegg Street Oldham.
LISTING TEXT - Cemetery gates and lodges. 1889. Coursed and squared sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. Main gate with segmental overarch beneath steep gable flanked by arched side gates with turrets to parapet over. Cast‑iron gates. Principal lodge to left: 2 storeyed, L‑plan with tower and spire in angle, and projecting gabled porch, mullioned and transomed windows, with oriel window in gable facing street. Coped gables, and axial stacks. Tower has narrow stair windows and balconette beneath clock stage. Gabletted parapet to spirelet above. Right‑hand lodge in similar, though less ornate, style with wide gabled dormer to left and central gabled porch. Paired 2‑pane sash windows, some with transoms, and canted bay window in gable end. Listing NGR: SD9127902346
Reference Manchester Guardian 13 August 1887 page 11 – contracts