Mausoleum of Julius Beer in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
MAUSOLEUM OF JULIUS BEER IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, SWAINS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378887
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Mausoleum of Julius Beer in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- MAUSOLEUM OF JULIUS BEER IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, SWAINS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378887
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Mausoleum of Julius Beer in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAUSOLEUM OF JULIUS BEER IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, SWAINS LANE
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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 JULIUS BEER IN HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY, SWAINS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28334 87151
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 11 October 2023 to amend the description, add sources and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ2887SW
798-1/5/1557
SWAIN'S LANE (West side), CAMDEN
Mausoleum of Julius Beer in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
(Formerly Listed as: HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY Mausoleum to Julius Beer)
14/05/74
GV II*
Mausoleum situated above the Columbarium (qv). c1878. To the designs of William
Oscar Wilford Bouwens van der Boijen, and executed by John Oldrid Scott, based on
the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Stone. Square plan. Channelled clasping pilasters support similarly rusticated
Diocletian windows with continuous hoodmoulds and antefixae, from behind which rises
a pyramidal roof, carved to appear as tiled, with oculi and cross finial. Panels beneath
windows have Ionic pilasters. Architraved doorway with cornice and inscription
"Mausoleum of Julius Beer" in panel below; bronze doors by Farmer & Brindley.
INTERIOR: in Quattrocento style with marble carving by HH Armstead. 2 sarcophagi;
Beer's opposite entrance, with swagged frieze, standing in front of a round-arched high
relief panel depicting an angel raising a winged child. The whole framed by paired
Corinthian columns, on pedestals, with enriched dentil entablature. Lit by patterned
stained glass windows.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Julius Beer made his fortune from the Stock Exchange and
owned The Observer newspaper. He died in 1880 but had bought the plot and
commissioned the architect in 1876.
Listing NGR: TQ2833487151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478248
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mausolus in The Journal of the Mausolea & Monuments Trust, (Summer 2023), pp 6-15
The Builder, (1878), pp 513-516
Websites
Highgate Cemetery Newsletter April 2023, accessed 10 October 2023 from https://highgatecemetery.org/news/newsletter
Other
Bouwens’s drawings of the mausoleum held at the Académie d’Architecture, Paris
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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