Mausoleum of Greenwich Hospital in Grounds of Number 40
MAUSOLEUM OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL IN GROUNDS OF NUMBER 40, MAZE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288809
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Mausoleum of Greenwich Hospital in Grounds of Number 40
- Statutory Address:
- MAUSOLEUM OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL IN GROUNDS OF NUMBER 40, MAZE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288809
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Mausoleum of Greenwich Hospital in Grounds of Number 40
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAUSOLEUM OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL IN GROUNDS OF NUMBER 40, MAZE HILL
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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:
- MAUSOLEUM OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL IN GROUNDS OF NUMBER 40, MAZE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 39156 77725
Details
TQ 3977 MAZE HILL
786-/27/10020 Mausoleum of Greenwich Hospital in grounds of no 40
GV II
Mausoleum. Built under the direction of Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1713-14 to serve as a mausoleum for the use of the officers of the Greenwich Hospital and their families. Richard Billingshurst was the bricklayer. Reroofed and arched openings filled up c1820. A 3-bay single storey structure of brown brick with rubbed red brick dressings, stone coping and slate roof End pediments with brick pilasters and round-headed arch with C20 plank door. The 3 arched openings on the north side have been partially bricked in, partially glazed in and the central opening now has a door. The floor inside is paved with stone slabs. Below the structure is a 3 bay groined vault of brick with a floor probably of beaten earth. At the time of inspection this was full of intact, semi-preserved and collapsed coffins of lead and wood together with the decayed relics of their former charges. Some iron bars, and a curved section of brickwork on the west (or park) side show where the entrance to the vault originally was. This structure ceased to be used for interments in the late 1740s. Shown on 1749 engraving of Greenwich Park in London Magazine, but with original triple gabled roof with higher central section.
[See Mrs Basil Holmes, "The London Burial Grounds" 1896 p.178 and p.313].
Listing NGR: TQ3913877750
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Holmes, Mrs B, The London Burial Grounds, (1896), 178, 313
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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