Constable Mausoleum
CONSTABLE MAUSOLEUM, B1326
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1346604
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Constable Mausoleum
- Statutory Address:
- CONSTABLE MAUSOLEUM, B1326
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1346604
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Constable Mausoleum
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONSTABLE MAUSOLEUM, B1326
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:
- CONSTABLE MAUSOLEUM, B1326
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Halsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 27054 27866
Details
HALSHAM B 1362 TA 22 NE (east side, off) 3/9 Constable Mausoleum (formerly listed as Mausoleum) 4-3-52 GV II *
Mausoleum. 1792-1802 by Thomas Atkinson of York, completed by his son John, for Sir Edward Constable. Alterations to base by Charles Mountain of Hull c1830. Restorations of c1910. Limestone and sandstone ashlar. Classical style. Circular on plan, with domed temple approximately 9 metres diameter on wider basement approximately 15 metres diameter, with entrances and staircase to west. Basement has plinth, chamfered rustication, eight 3- light sliding sashes with glazing bars in reveals beneath rusticated flat arches, perron to south with double board doors beneath rusticated round arch flanked by staircases with curtail steps and wrought-iron balustrades with plain bars, and pointed finials above single top rail. Similar railings around flagstone roof, which forms platform around temple. Latter has moulded plinth, 8-bay pilastered round-arched blind arcade with recessed rectangular panels above, entrance with double panelled doors in reveal with architrave carrying plain entablature with moulded cornice. Plain frieze, moulded cornice, blocking course and dome with moulded cap and cross finial. Interior. Temple: plinth, half-domed niches in full-height pilastered arcade with carved and painted shields to frieze, plain ribbed vault with coloured glass to skylight; crucifix in eastern niche, with carved arms above; columned balustrade around central circular well containing tall pedestal and white urn inscribed to Sir William Constable, and with inscribed grave slabs to inner face. Interior of basement has vaulted corridor around foot of tower, with a series of inscribed tablets to C18 and later members of Constable family, one tablet inscribed:
Bones of the Ancestors of the Family of CONSTABLE Collected in The Old Vault of the Family adjoining the Church of Halsham and transferred to the MAUSOLEUM on the 23rd of August 1802
Mausoleum is set on circular platform (reputedly the site of a tumulus) approached by an avenue of yew trees. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England, East Riding, 1972, p 241; Victoria County History: York, East Riding, vol 5, 1984, p 33; photographs in NMR.
Listing NGR: TA2705427867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166550
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Allison, K J, The Victoria History of the County of York: East Riding, (1984), 33
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
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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