Editing Dean Cemetery (section)

==The cemetery==
Dean Cemetery, originally known as Edinburgh Western Cemetery,<ref name=cwgc1>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/47106/EDINBURGH%20(WESTERN)%20CEMETERY |title=Cemetery Details |website=CWGC.org |access-date=2016-01-07}}</ref> was laid out by [[David Cousin]] (an Edinburgh architect who also laid out [[Warriston Cemetery]]) in 1846 and was a fashionable burial ground for mainly the middle and upper-classes. The many monuments bear witness to [[Scottish culture|Scottish]] achievement in peace and war, at home and abroad and are a rich source of Edinburgh and [[Victorian era|Victorian]] history.

As the cemetery plots were quickly bought up the cemetery was extended on its north side in 1871.<ref>Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford McWilliam and Walker</ref> A second set of entrance gates were built on Dean Path, matching the original entrance. Although this section was originally only accessed through this gate the extension was quickly linked to the original section by creating gaps in the mutual wall where no graves existed.

The separated section north of Ravelston Terrace (previously Edgehill Nursery<ref>Ordnance Survey 1851 : Edinburgh</ref>) was purchased in 1877 in anticipation of a sales rate matching that of the original cemetery, but this was not to be, and the area only began to be used in 1909 (excepting [[John Ritchie Findlay]] (1898) alone for a decade). This section is relatively plain and generally unremarkable, but does include a line of Scottish judges against the north wall, perhaps trying to echo the "Lord's Row" against the west wall of the original cemetery. Whilst numerically greater in its number of lords it is far less eye-catching.

The entire cemetery is privately owned by the Dean Cemetery Trust Limited, making it one of the few cemeteries still run as it was intended to be run. The resultant layout, with its mature designed landscape, can be seen as an excellent example of a cemetery actually being visible in the form it was conceived to be seen.

The southern access from Belford Road is now blocked and the entrance road here is now grassed and used for the interment of ashes.

The cemetery contains sculpture by [[Sir John Steell]], [[William Brodie (sculptor)|William Brodie]], [[John Hutchison (sculptor)|John Hutchison]], [[Francis John Williamson]], [[Pilkington Jackson]], [[Amelia Robertson Hill]], [[William Birnie Rhind]], [[John Rhind (sculptor)|John Rhind]], [[John Stevenson Rhind]], [[William Grant Stevenson]], [[Henry Snell Gamley]], [[Charles McBride]], [[George Frampton]], [[Walter Hubert Paton]] and [[Stewart McGlashan]].