Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Ford Mausoleum and Attached Railings
BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY FORD MAUSOLEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, LEWES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381664
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Ford Mausoleum and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY FORD MAUSOLEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, LEWES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381664
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Ford Mausoleum and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY FORD MAUSOLEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, LEWES 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.
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:
- BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY FORD MAUSOLEUM AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, LEWES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32531 05797
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3205NE LEWES ROAD
577-1/24/380 (East side)
Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery: Ford
mausoleum and attached railings
GV II
Mausoleum of Gerard Ford. 1830-1889. Approx 90 metres east of
the cemetery chapel (qv). Dressed stone and polished granite;
roof of stone. Gothic style.
Pointed-arched entrance with elaborately subordered and gabled
porch to east, doors of grey polished granite; clasping
buttresses to all corners; the north and south sides have a
pair of round-arched panels with engaged columns of pink
polished granite, foliage capitals and hoodmoulds, those to
the south having inscriptions; west end has a pointed-arched
arcade of 6 bays with columns of pink polished granite and a
west window of 3 lights and 2 transoms giving the effect of a
columbarium; roof of stone slabs, the gable-mouldings missing
in places; railings of cast and wrought-iron surround the
mausoleum.
Listing NGR: TQ3253105797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482027
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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