LOWTHER MAUSOLEUM SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326821
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: LOWTHER MAUSOLEUM SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: LOWTHER MAUSOLEUM SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326821
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: LOWTHER MAUSOLEUM SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: LOWTHER MAUSOLEUM SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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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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:: LOWTHER MAUSOLEUM SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lowther
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: NY 51895 24380

Details

NY 52 SW LOWTHER LOWTHER

12/145 Lowther Mausoleum south-west of 6.2.68 Church of St Michael

II

Mausoleum for the Lowther family. Dated AD 1857 over entrance, for William, second Earl of Lonsdale. Calciferous sandstone ashlar with polished Shap granite panels. Rectangular 3-bay chamber over basement. Front has steps down to double panelled doors in pointed arch. Above is a similar doorway with glazed panel doors, under Lowther arms. Battlemented shaped parapet and octagonal angle turrets, the caps with numerous carved heads and surmounted by griffins. Return walls have recesses with pointed granite panels under shaped parapet with 3 blank shields. Rear steps up to flagged walk around. Rear 4-light pointed-arched window. Inside is a marble seated figure of the 2nd Earl by E.B. Stephens 1863, nine years before his death.

Listing NGR: NY5189524380

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Legacy System number:: 74353
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.