Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Ray Mausoleum
BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY RAY MAUSOLEUM, LEWES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381665
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Ray Mausoleum
- Statutory Address:
- BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY RAY MAUSOLEUM, LEWES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381665
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Ray Mausoleum
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIGHTON EXTRA MURAL CEMETERY RAY MAUSOLEUM, 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 RAY MAUSOLEUM, 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 32461 05841
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3205NW LEWES ROAD
577-1/23/382 (East side)
Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery: Ray
mausoleum
GV II
Mausoleum of the Ray family, approx 5 metres east of the
cemetery chapel (qv). c1850. Knapped flint with granite
dressings, asphalted roof.
The building is square in plan and partly set into the
hillside.
Pointed-arched entrance to west set under a rectangular
hoodmould, the spandrels filled with quatrefoils, and over it
a gabled niche containing a Classical female figure.
The 2 principal fronts to west and south are divided by
buttresses creating uneven bays on the west side, even on the
south, and there is a high base with an offset through which
the entrance breaks.
South bay to west has a trefoiled niche under a pointed-arched
hoodmould with another Classical female figure in it and a
cross in an octofoil above.
On the south side there are 2 trefoiled panels under ogee
hoodmoulds, that to the west 'Mary at the Sepulchre', to the
east 'Gethsemane'. The east face has a similar panel of Christ
and St Peter. Cornice and blocking course.
Listing NGR: TQ3246105841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482028
- 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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