Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent

Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent, The Home Park, Windsor

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1117780
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1975
List Entry Name:
Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent
Statutory Address:
Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent, The Home Park, Windsor

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1117780
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1975
List Entry Name:
Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent
Statutory Address 1:
Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent, The Home Park, Windsor

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent, The Home Park, Windsor

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

District:
Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SU 97554 75915

Details

SU 97 NE
8/95

THE HOME PARK
Mausoleum of the Duchess of Kent

I

1861. Begun during the life of the Duchess of Kent. Architect A J Humbert. Heavy late French neo-classical detail. Galleried, ribbed copper dome to Portland stone ashlar rotunda surrounded by pink granite colonnade with bronze Ionic capitals and bases. Bronze urns on entablature. Rusticated basement. Main approach, facing bridge over lake, has double flight of balustraded steps, heavy rustication to retaining wall with central niche and bust, returning to meet on terrace in front of heavily rusticated projecting portal to basement of rotunda. Heavy panelled round headed gun metal doors.

Interior by Professor Gruner of Dresden with heraldic painting. Statue of the Duchess by William Theed the younger.

Listing NGR: SU9755475915

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
40362
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 05/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

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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