MAUSOLEUM TO EARL OF DUNMOW WITH 2 TOMB CHESTS AND HEADSTONE ABOUT 100 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE

MAUSOLEUM TO EARL OF DUNMOW WITH 2 TOMB CHESTS AND HEADSTONE ABOUT 100 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372893
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: MAUSOLEUM TO EARL OF DUNMOW WITH 2 TOMB CHESTS AND HEADSTONE ABOUT 100 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
Statutory Address:: MAUSOLEUM TO EARL OF DUNMOW WITH 2 TOMB CHESTS AND HEADSTONE ABOUT 100 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372893
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: MAUSOLEUM TO EARL OF DUNMOW WITH 2 TOMB CHESTS AND HEADSTONE ABOUT 100 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
Statutory Address 1:: MAUSOLEUM TO EARL OF DUNMOW WITH 2 TOMB CHESTS AND HEADSTONE ABOUT 100 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, HIGH STREET

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:: MAUSOLEUM TO EARL OF DUNMOW WITH 2 TOMB CHESTS AND HEADSTONE ABOUT 100 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:: Ramsgate
National Grid Reference:: TR 36939 65364

Details

RAMSGATE HIGH STREET TR 3665 SE ST. LAWRENCE (north-west side) 6/212 Mausoleum to Earl of Dunmow with 2 tomb chests and headstone about 100 metres west of Church of St. Laurence GV II Mausoleum of 10th Earl of Dunmow d.1809. Ashlar with stone slate roof. Greek cross-plan Gothic mausoleum on paved platform (railings now missing). Each arm of the plan in the form of a buttressed gable, 3 sides with inscription plaques with moulded and stopped hoods, the eastern side with hollow chamfered doorway with hood mould and 2 steps to blocked-up doorway, all gables with quatrefoil ventilation holes. Tomb chest to Mary Peake, d.1744, about 10 metres south west, with double stepped base (railings missing) and moulded plinth with baluster corner piers raised and fielded panels, the cut away corner with rose and scallop motifs, and with inscribed moulded top slab. Headstone to William Smith about 20 metres south west, mid C18 sandstone. About 2 feet high, with moulded panel with good quality but badly spalled inscription, with segmental head with symbols of Freemasonry (Eye in sunburst, compasses, set square, open book). Tomb chest to Susann Crofton, d.1863 about 5 metres north. High quality Gothic tomb chest with railings. Chamfered base and frame to chest in stone (artificial stone?) with nook shafts with voluted capitals, with cuspings holding white marble side panels in place, with inscription in uncial lettering. Marble top slab inlaid with fleurette octofoil calvary cross in coloured marble. Unusual iron rail, with square ball-finialed principals and uprights with triple spiked heads, and tendril-like scrolls finished with hearts, with dog rail, the rivets throughout made a feature.

Listing NGR: TR3693965364

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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.