Rockingham Mausoleum Including Obelisks and Railed Enclosure
ROCKINGHAM MAUSOLEUM INCLUDING OBELISKS AND RAILED ENCLOSURE, CORTWORTH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286386
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Rockingham Mausoleum Including Obelisks and Railed Enclosure
- Statutory Address:
- ROCKINGHAM MAUSOLEUM INCLUDING OBELISKS AND RAILED ENCLOSURE, CORTWORTH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286386
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rockingham Mausoleum Including Obelisks and Railed Enclosure
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCKINGHAM MAUSOLEUM INCLUDING OBELISKS AND RAILED ENCLOSURE, CORTWORTH LANE
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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:
- ROCKINGHAM MAUSOLEUM INCLUDING OBELISKS AND RAILED ENCLOSURE, CORTWORTH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wentworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 41354 97030
Details
SK49NW
5/85
29.4.68
WENTWORTH
CORTWORTH LANE(south side, off)Rockingham Mausoleum including obelisks and railed enclosure(formerly Listed as The Mausoleum Nether Hough)
GI
Cenotaph.1784-1793 by John Carr of York for William Wentworth Fitzwilliam in memory of his uncle,Charles Wentworth,second Marquis of Rockingham and Prime Minister at the time of his death in 1782.Ashlar sandstone;iron-railed enclosure.Tiered three-stage monument with four freestanding,diagonally-set,obelisks;all within circular enclosure.Doric lower stage;Corinthian upper stages.Five-step plinth.Rusticated lower stage has doorway on side facing Wentworth Woodhouse(q.v.).Double door in corniced architrave flanked by columns with full entablature and pediment.Other sides have boarded windows in matching surrounds and aedicule.Doric frieze and cornice with standard elements.Second stage:paired columns flank round-arched openings,sarcophagus within.Each opening with archivolt and console-shaped keystone.Entablature surmounted by large urns(one missing).Third stage:peristyle colonnade with domed cupola.Interior:robed statue of Charles Wentworth by Nollekens,pedestal inscribed with epitaphs in prose by Edmund Burke and in verse by Montagu(statue now set within iron cage).Four niches set round have paired bust bases inscribed with the names of Rockingham's closest friends:Edmund Burke,Charles James Fox,Admiral Keppel,Lord John Cavendish,John Lee,the Duke of Portland,Frederick Montagu and Sir George Saville(the busts,all by Nollekens,now removed to safety).Eight fluted columns support dome decorated with Adam-style plasterwork.Obelisks:pedestals have moulded plinths,die with fielded panels and cornices.Plain shafts with vase finials.Enclosure:railings have stout,pointed,bars set in round-topped plinth wall;plain top rail;matching gate opposite doorway.The monument was largely complete by 1789,the obelisks originally from the west front of Wentworth Woodhouse were removed to this site in 1793.At time of resurvey main structure strapped by ironwork,timber shoring to second stage arches and brickwork within iron-banded colonnade of third stage.The architectural splendour of the monument is at present marred,nevertheless it retains all its importance in the local landscape.R.B.Wragg,'The Rockingham Mausoleum(1784-1793)',Yorkshire Archaeological Journal,vol 52,1980,pp 157-166.
Listing NGR: SK4135497030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 52, (1980), 157-166
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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