THE RAIKES MAUSOLEUM

THE RAIKES MAUSOLEUM, MAUSOLEUM PLANTATION

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1203947
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: THE RAIKES MAUSOLEUM
Statutory Address:: THE RAIKES MAUSOLEUM, MAUSOLEUM PLANTATION

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1203947
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: THE RAIKES MAUSOLEUM
Statutory Address 1:: THE RAIKES MAUSOLEUM, MAUSOLEUM PLANTATION

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: THE RAIKES MAUSOLEUM, MAUSOLEUM PLANTATION

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District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Welton
National Grid Reference:: SE 96534 29176

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/10/2011

SE 92 NE 6/86 7.2.68

WELTON MAUSOLEUM PLANTATION WELTON DALE The Raikes Mausoleum

II

Mausoleum. 1818 for Sir Robert Raikes. Limestone ashlar. Circular plan: probably a copy of a Roman model. Tall single storey on basement. Rusticated base with segmental openings to basement. Eight steps to sealed, rendered and lined doorway in architrave: scrolled brackets to projecting cornice over frieze of bay leaves and garlands. Over the door is a corniced panel with the inscription "AEDIFICAVIT ROBERTUS RAIKES ARMIGER AD MDCCCXVIII". Around the building are 8 Doric pilasters dividing it into bays: each alternate bay blind. Other bays have projecting panels with cornice and blocking course carrying sarcophagi in low relief: above are ventilation holes in sunk corniced panels. Frieze of triglyphs and guttae: Doric cornice, blocking course, and stepped ashlar dome. The building is enclosed by a circular flagged area defined by a dwarf wall, once carrying iron railings (now removed).

Listing NGR: SE9653429176

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Legacy System number:: 164845
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.