DIGBY MAUSOLEUM IN SHERBORNE CEMETERY

DIGBY MAUSOLEUM IN SHERBORNE CEMETERY, LENTHAY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1110703
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: DIGBY MAUSOLEUM IN SHERBORNE CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: DIGBY MAUSOLEUM IN SHERBORNE CEMETERY, LENTHAY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1110703
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: DIGBY MAUSOLEUM IN SHERBORNE CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: DIGBY MAUSOLEUM IN SHERBORNE CEMETERY, LENTHAY ROAD

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:: DIGBY MAUSOLEUM IN SHERBORNE CEMETERY, LENTHAY ROAD

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sherborne
National Grid Reference:: ST 63010 16079

Details

LENTHAY ROAD 1. 1625 (North-West Side) Digby Mausoleum in Sherborne Cemetery ST 6316 5/354 II 2. Shown in London Exhibition of 1862; architect, William Slater. Built by George Wingfield Digby for his family. Fine ashlar, stone slate roof. Richly and delicately ornamented. North East end rounded; 3 windows. 4 windows to North West and South East facing sides. Carved stone bracket eaves with toothed course. Stone course below windows. Lancet windows in reveals behind lancet openings ornamented with short columns with carved capitlas. In north-west facing side, metal door at right hand end; square- headed reveals; lintel supported by coloured marble columns with carved heads; carved chamfers; stepped and moulded plinth. Entrance in south-west end; in gable, rose window flanked and surmounted by carved circular medallions. Wide pointed entrance arch with stepped sides; first and third steps embellished by carvings of leaves and birds; in the tympanum a relief of the Lord's Resurrection by Redfern. Steps of arch supported by marble columns of different colours [marble quarried in different European quarries]. 6 steps ascend to doorway. Entrance to Mausoleum enclosed by railings. [See also G H D Pitman, "Exploring Sherborne," p58].

Listing NGR: ST6301016079

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Pitman, G H D , Exploring Sherborne58

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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.