Newlands Cross

Style

The approach to the cemetery buildings informs the driveway with a sense of serenity and has a processional quality. Around the set down area, adjacent to the administrative buildings and chapel, there are garden areas which in time will contain memorial areas for burial urns. These small-scale areas are closely related to the buildings and serve as quiet, tranquil spaces for mourners attending funerals. These spaces have been configured with broken circles, playing against the strong lines of the buildings. The main access into the cemetery is through these garden areas, and they act as a transitional space between the parkland and the building areas. The layout of the burial plots of the cemetery follows a traditional east-west orientation. The individual burial plots themselves are defined by single headstones using Irish stone only - granite, limestone, sandstone etc. set within a recessed plinth.