Glenesk Mausoleum, St Marylebone Cemetery

GLENESK MAUSOLEUM, ST MARYLEBONE CEMETERY, EAST END ROAD N2

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064757
Date first listed:
26-Sept-1989
List Entry Name:
Glenesk Mausoleum, St Marylebone Cemetery
Statutory Address:
GLENESK MAUSOLEUM, ST MARYLEBONE CEMETERY, EAST END ROAD N2
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064757
Date first listed:
26-Sept-1989
List Entry Name:
Glenesk Mausoleum, St Marylebone Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:
GLENESK MAUSOLEUM, ST MARYLEBONE CEMETERY, EAST END ROAD N2

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
GLENESK MAUSOLEUM, ST MARYLEBONE CEMETERY, EAST END ROAD N2

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Barnet (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 25969 89570

Details

TQ 2589
22/6

EAST END ROAD (south side), N2
Glenesk Mausoleum St Marylebone Cemetery

II GV


Mausoleum. 1899 by Arthur Blomfield for Lord Glenesk. Limestone ashlar gable
stone; slate roof. Rectangular plan. Middle pointed style. Corner
buttresses. 3-bay east and west elevations have 2-light Decorated-style window
set in gabled slightly-projecting central bay flanked by lancets. North gable
has carved panel of Christ flanked by angels and soldiers over inscription and
3-light window of graduated lancets above pointed-arched doorway with foliate
spandrels, set within double-chamfered pointed arch; kneeling figures to finials
of buttresses. South gable has rose window with dogtooth carving, 3-light
window of graduated lancets and kneeling figures to finials of buttresses.
Interior: mosaic tile floor; engaged shafts with moulded capitals to springers
of fine 3-bay vaulted roof with foliate-carved bosses. South end has marble
wall shafts with foliate capitals to rerearch of rose window and fine stiff-leaf
carved frieze over fine inlaid tile reredos and altar. 3 fine Roman-style
sarcophagi to Lord Glenesk (d.1908), son Oliver (d.1905) and wife (d.1898).
Fine stained glass.


Listing NGR: TQ2596989570

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Legacy System number:
199242
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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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.

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