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Latitude: 55.9581 / 55°57'29"N
Longitude: -2.9876 / 2°59'15"W
OS Eastings: 338433
OS Northings: 674342
OS Grid: NT384743
Mapcode National: GBR 2J.XLRB
Mapcode Global: WH7TV.2HLS
Plus Code: 9C7VX256+7W
Entry Name: West Churchyard, Preston
Listing Name: High Street, Old West Burial Ground
Listing Date: 18 December 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386242
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40325
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Preston, West Churchyard
ID on this website: 200386242
Location: Prestonpans
County: East Lothian
Town: Prestonpans
Electoral Ward: Preston, Seton and Gosford
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Churchyard
Early 19th century walled enclosure, round graveyard of earlier date. Tall walls in random sandstone rubble, N wall with ashlar cope and piers to corners and central gateway, square section with plinth, projecting cope and plain cap. Decorative gates in cast- (upper section) and wrought-iron.
Other walls with rubble cope, S and E incorporating several good carved stones, eroding, of 17th and 18th century. 2 large 19th century stones remain in centre of graveyard. Other stones, mostly of 19th and early 20th century, gathered prone in NW corner of graveyard.
The oldest date decipherable on the stones is 1644. The older stones were incorporated in the walls in the early 19th century, while the recent clearance apparently took place in the 1980s. Listed at category B for the quality and interest of the older wall-mounted carved stones.
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