Magniac Mausoleum St Peter's Churchyard
MAGNIAC MAUSOLEUM ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114373
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Magniac Mausoleum St Peter's Churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- MAGNIAC MAUSOLEUM ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114373
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Magniac Mausoleum St Peter's Churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAGNIAC MAUSOLEUM ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, CHURCH LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MAGNIAC MAUSOLEUM ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bedford (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sharnbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 99334 59593
Details
SHARNBROOK CHURCH LANE SP 9959 18/445 Magniac Mausoleum St Peter's Churchyard - GV II
Mausoleum of 1870, designed by William Burges. Large rectangular memorial in stone and inlaid marble decoration, in free version of Sicilian Romanesque style. Rests on beaded plinth with undulate frieze running below and above main panels, then ogee cornice and flat slab top. Central cartouche in each side, with a cherub in three-quarter relief supporting an ornate scrolled console at each end of the long sides. Various inscriptions to members of the Magniac family of Colworth House. Protected by possibly later hipped red clay tile roof supported on eight wooden bracketed posts with end braces. Set on much larger limestone-edged plinth. J Mordaunt Crook, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream (1981) p153-4, 373, 432.
Listing NGR: SP9933459593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mordaunt Crook, J, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream, (1981), 153-4
Mordaunt Crook, J, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream, (1981), 373
Mordaunt Crook, J, William Burges and the High Victorian Dream, (1981), 432
Legal
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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