CEMETERY, KINGSTON AND HASTINGS MAUSOLEUM

CEMETERY, KINGSTON AND HASTINGS MAUSOLEUM, THE DOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021562
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:: CEMETERY, KINGSTON AND HASTINGS MAUSOLEUM
Statutory Address:: CEMETERY, KINGSTON AND HASTINGS MAUSOLEUM, THE DOWN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021562
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:: CEMETERY, KINGSTON AND HASTINGS MAUSOLEUM
Statutory Address 1:: CEMETERY, KINGSTON AND HASTINGS MAUSOLEUM, THE DOWN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CEMETERY, KINGSTON AND HASTINGS MAUSOLEUM, THE DOWN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Trowbridge
National Grid Reference:: ST 86122 58984

Details

THE DOWN 1. 5411 (East Side) Cemetery, Kingston and Hastings Mausoleum ST 8658 10/214 II

2. Circa 1870s. Designed and built by William Smith, the local architect (ML). Romanesque style. Stone vault formerly with segmental, or possibly triangular, dogtooth and roll-moulded caps. Central entrance of 2 orders with pink granite nook shafts, wide palmette caps and imposts, chevron lintel with moulded spaces and small arcade to outer order, also a chevron band between orders. 2 blind flanking arches with single nook shafts having similar decoration on smaller scale. Bronze plates to the Rev. Thomas Kingston (d. 1867) with shield above and to Rev. J. D. Hastings Trowbridge, d. 1869, also with shield above. Particularly remarkable ironwork (by Lucas): central door with decorative hinge and handle fretwork of wrought iron and horrid spike array in tympanum.

Listing NGR: ST8612258984

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Legacy System number:: 313957
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.