Phipps Mausoleum in Westbury Cemetery

PHIPPS MAUSOLEUM IN WESTBURY CEMETERY, BRATTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1364424
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:
Phipps Mausoleum in Westbury Cemetery
Statutory Address:
PHIPPS MAUSOLEUM IN WESTBURY CEMETERY, BRATTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1364424
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:
Phipps Mausoleum in Westbury Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:
PHIPPS MAUSOLEUM IN WESTBURY CEMETERY, BRATTON ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
PHIPPS MAUSOLEUM IN WESTBURY CEMETERY, BRATTON ROAD

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Westbury
National Grid Reference:
ST 88113 51448

Details

WESTBURY BRATTON ROAD 1. 5411 (South Side) Phipps Mausoleum in Westbury Cemetery ST 85 SE 1/122

II*

2. Circa 1871 [when John Lewis Phipps buried there. On the 1886 OS map]. The largest and most impressive of the structures in the cemetery. Ashlar. Square base becoming octagonal for main chamber and above. Blind tracery parapet. Short steeple with 8 gabled lantern capped by spirelet. Griffin-type gargoyles below parapet. 8 windows, with blind crocketted canopies carried on angle stops having blind traceried oculus in each with shield. 4 main windows contain 2 lights with 3 foiled over lights and blind panel below with shields. The other 4 windows are blind with similar tracery cut short by spurs from square base, the shields in blind window area. Chevron imbricated plinth. The basement is reached by steps. Large pointed entrance with moulded orders and carved head stops, pink granite nook shafts. Blind oculus in tympanum with quatrefoil containing heraldic shield. Double doors with heavy wrought iron work. 2 blind arcades to right in area before entrance. A further door to left and an archway to stairs. Enclosed by large pierced stone balustrade of oculi containing quatrefoils. Piers with stunted heads occur every 2 quatrefoils. The balustrade is to North and South of mausoleum and has extension to East on 3 sides to enclose entrance.

Listing NGR: ST8811351448

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
313074
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.

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