The Mausoleum
The Mausoleum
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160467
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Mausoleum
- Statutory Address:
- The Mausoleum
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- Date:
- 2002-04-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/05929/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160467
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Mausoleum
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Mausoleum
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:
- The Mausoleum
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Wycombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 82794 94932, SU 82794 94933
Details
SU 8294
10/2
WEST WYCOMBE
The Mausoleum
9.1.54.
GV
I
1763-4, designed by John Bastard the Younger of Blandford. Hexagonal tall flint rubble wall ashlar dressed with entablature and panelled parapet surmounted by stone urns grouped in threes at angles. Exterior has attached stucco Roman Doric columns under entablature with triglyphs, guttae and urn reliefs to frieze, modillioned cornice.
Interior, unroofed, has wall monuments, one with figure sculpture early C18, and central 1769 monument of urn on pedestal under Roman Ionic stone canopy. Arches, bricks and rectangular openings to walls. Wall inscriptions to Sir Francis Dashwood, Lord Le Despencer, and friends.
Church of Saint Lawrence and the Mausoleum form a group.
Listing NGR: SU8278894917
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46141
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
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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