There are three buildings within the old cemetery:
- The Chapel
- The Roofless Chapel
- The Lodge
The walls of the buildings are built with sandstone. Some of the pillars are capped with a different material, possibly concrete. This white lichen, Aspicillia sp. is common on walls, but doesn’t grow on cement or mortar.
The distinctive yellow, crustose lichen: Caloplaca sp. colonises the capping stones and the mortar in between the stones, seeming to grow better on basic stone. Black patches of Verrucaria evident
Sandstone offers an acidic substrate for growth of many different Lecanora sp., appearing as white, grey and some pale green powdery lichens. Patches of black, Placynthium nigram also preferring the acidic surface
Teignmouth Old Cemetery 