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Contents

A message from the Chairman Page 3 From the Secretary Page 4 Guise Mausoleum raised to Grade II* Listed Building Page 4 Gabriel Byng Good Grief: Pop-up Mausolea, Loos and the Realm of Art Page 5 Ian Dungavell A Tale of Two Mausolea Page 6 Gavin Stamp Reviewing the Summer Mausolea Crawl Page 8 MMT visit to selected mausolea in North Yorkshire Frances Sands and Ann-Marie Akehurst Hope Mausoleum and a Regency Rebirth Page 11 How local volunteers & the MMT unearthed dazzling mausoleum & Georgian estate at Deepdene Alexander Bagnall Bringing back the Barrow Page 14 Charles Wagner Events Page 16 The Gazetteer Page 16

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Patrons e editorship of Mausolus Professor James Stevens Curl Tim Knox has changed hands

Honorary Secretary I am delighted to let everyone know John St. Brioc Hooper that this is the ﬁ rst issue of Mausolus to be published under a new Editor, Amy Chairman Jeffs. Ian Johnson Amy is a PhD candidate in History of Trustees Art at the University of Cambridge. Alexander Bagnall She takes over from Gabriel Byng Roger Bowdler who has started a new teaching post Gabriel Byng at Clare Hall in Cambridge. Gabriel Tom Drysdale remains a trustee of the MMT but it is Carolyn Leigh (Membership Secretary) important to say how grateful the Trust Tim Ellis has been for his work over the years in Robert Heathcote (Treasurer) raising the quality and proﬁ le of our Ian Johnson magazine. Enormous thanks are due to Frances Sands him and good wishes in his new post. Gavin Stamp Charles Wagner We look forward to working with Amy to continue the process started by Mausolus is published twice Gabriel. a year by the Mausolea & Monuments Trust. All contents Ian Johnson © MMT 2015 except where otherwise indicated.

Members and others are warmly encouraged to contribute photos, news and features to: Amy Jeffs Corpus Christi College Cambridge CB2 1RH [email protected]

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From the Secretary Welcome to Tom Drysdale, new trustee

The trust has recently co- with Historic Royal Palaces, opted Tom Drysdale to be where he worked on the Tom is now a proud MMT trustee a trustee. Tom is a curator restoration of the Pagoda in Mausolus (2015) and Death with a particular interest in Kew Gardens. Currently he & Memory: Soane and the architectural drawings and works at the British Library. Architercture of Legacy (2015). historic buildings. He studied Tom has given papers He currently lives in North History at Durham University at conferences including London and is a regular visitor before being appointed as a the inaugural Mausolea & to Abney Park Cemetery. We Drawings Cataloguer at Sir Monuments Trust Student welcome him onto the board John Soane’s Museum and Symposium, and his essays and look forward to calling on then as an Assistant Curator have been published in his expertise.

Guise Mausoleum raised to Grade II* Listed Building Gabriel Byng shares the success of MMT application

I am delighted to let our us in raising money to restore in 1650 but now lost], but it is members know that, in the monument to its former one of the earliest known... response to an application I glory. The mausoleum was what distinguishes [it] from made on behalf of the MMT, listed at Grade II in 1991, but others built around this time is the Secretary of State for the DCMS decided that at that that it is an exact reproduction Culture, Media and Sport has time its national signiﬁ cance of a Roman tomb rather than a decided to amend the entry had not been fully recognised. variation on an antique theme. for the Guise Mausoleum on Although ruinous, the Selection Moreover, it is an accomplished the List of Buildings of Special Guide states that ‘a tomb in structure that is faultlessly Architectural or Historic a fragmentary state may still proportioned and possesses Interest, raising it to Grade II*. be of special interest if its a high level of quality. As a Not only will this help to components are all present’. As mausoleum, therefore, it is protect the mausoleum’s fabric many readers will know, it will of a great rarity as a mid-C18 in perpetuity, but it will also help be possible to reconstruct the building of this type. Guise Mausoleum accurately ‘The Guise Mausoleum is since its dimensions are also considered to be Western recorded in a Faculty of 1733 Europe’s earliest surviving and much of the collapsed example since antiquity of a masonry survives. structure that incorporates The DCMS report notes baseless Doric columns. that: ‘Sir John Guise was Although such columns were not unique in his choice of a feature of Ancient Greek and a Roman prototype [the 1st Roman architecture... they or 2nd century AD Roman were to become a fundamental mausoleum at Terracina in component of the neo-Classical Guise Mausoleum, early 1900s Italy, illustrated by Roland Feart style in the later C18.’

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Good Grief: Pop-up Mausolea, Loos and the Realm of Art Ian Dungavell describes a sepulchral installation at Highgate Cem- etery & the accompanying discussion of grief & loss in architecture

In September of 2016, Highgate Cemetery played host to ‘A Very Small Part of Architecture’, an installation by Sam Jacob Studio. It was commissioned by the Architecture Foundation, a British charitable coalition which campaigns for a better built environment. The installation was based on a 1921 design for a mausoleum by the famous modernist Austrian architect, Adolf Loos, for art historian Max Dvořák. Intended to be made of black Swedish granite and to be about six metres high, it was never built, but the image of Loos’

The original model of Adolf Loos’s Mausoleum (1921) Jacob said it was ‘a diff erent kind of memorial. Not one dedicated to a person, an event, or a moment in time, not designed to remember the past, but instead to imagine other possibilities, altered presents and alternative futures’. The name came from Loos’ statement that: ‘Only a very small part of architecture belongs to the realm of art: the tomb and the monument.’ Over three nights in early September several hundred people came to discuss grief and loss in Colourful recreation of Loos’ mausoleum seen at architecture in a very appropriate setting under Highgate Cemetery by night the stars. The solidity of a ‘real’ mausoleum designed by Craig Hamilton rising at the end of design has haunted architectural culture ever the Courtyard provided a telling contrast. It will since. The stepped roof was loosely inspired by be fi nished later this year. the mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the interior was to have had frescoes by Oskar Kokoschka. Highgate Cemetery has a full programme of The heavy dark form was recreated at full size events which can be found on ttheir website: using a lightweight timber frame and scaff old net. http://highgatecemetery.org/events It was then and coloured with light.

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A TALE OF TWO MAUSOLEA Gavin Stamp traces the memorial footprint of Soﬁ a’s political past

The imposing Battenburg Mausoleum in Sofi a in the eclectic style Monarchs and emperors get characteristic of its architect, Hermann Mayer splendid mausolea; dictators sometimes end up in even second son of Prince Alexander fi ne domed mausoleum. It was bigger ones – but they may not of Hesse, was invited to rule built next to the zoological park, last very long. This is the case the new nation as Prince the designed in the French Beaux- in Sofi a, the capital of Bulgaria, following year. Unfortunately, Arts manner by the Swiss where the stories of two in 1886, he was forced to architect Hermann Mayer. mausolea refl ect the troubled abdicate by a military coup. He Alexander’s successor, modern history of the country. retreated to Graz, where he initially as Prince, then as After many centuries of died in 1893. Alexander was Tsar, was Ferdinand of Saxe- Ottoman rule, the Kingdom of not, however, forgotten and his Coburg and Gotha. He did not, Bulgaria was revived in 1878. body was brought back to Sofi a however, end up in a grand Alexander of Battenberg, the and, in 1897, laid to rest in a royal mausoleum. Forced to

6 Mausolus - Winter 2016 abdicate in 1918 after presiding the offi cial residence of Boris’s In 1990, after the end of over Bulgaria’s two military son, Tsar Simeon II, whose Communist rule, Dimitrov’s defeats in, fi rst, the Second brief reign as a minor was soon body was removed from the Balkan War and then the Great terminated by a referendum mausoleum, cremated and War, he returned to Coburg on the monarchy in 1946 the ashes interred in Sofi a’s where he lived on, dying in organised by the Communist Central Cemetery. What 1948. Ferdinand wished to government of Georgi Dimitrov. to do with his now empty be buried in Bulgaria, so his Dimitrov, long a Marxist mausoleum? Rather than re- coffi n was placed, temporarily, revolutionary, was Bulgaria’s use it for another purpose, or in the crypt of the church of St fi rst Communist ruler, becoming keep it as an historical relic, the Augustin in Coburg. Prime Minister in 1946. His government in 1999 decided to Ferdinand I was succeeded death in 1949 was sudden, blow it up, but explosives failed by his son, who reigned as Tsar and it is strongly suspected to shift it and only succeeded Boris III (Boris I and II were that he was poisoned by order in making the tough structure rulers of the ancient Bulgarian of Stalin, owing to his alliance lean at an angle. After this Empire a millennium earlier). with Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. public embarrassment, the During the Second World War, Dimitrov’s body was then mausoleum was eventually despite German pressure, installed in a hastily constructed demolished by more Boris endorsed his subjects’ mausoleum raised in the park conventional means. conspicuous refusal to engage opposite the former royal The site of Dimitrov’s in the persecution and export palace (now a museum) in the mausoleum is now empty. of Bulgaria’s Jews. He died in centre of Sofi a. This temple- The Battenberg Mausoleum, 1943 shortly after visiting Hitler like structure of white marble however, the handsome in Berlin: poison was strongly was designed by Bulgarian building containing the body suspected. He was buried in architect Georgi Ovcharov of modern Bulgaria’s fi rst ruler, the Rila Monastery, though later in a rather stodgy version of however, still proudly stands the Communist government the stripped Classical style and, having been closed secretly transferred his remains usually - if wrongly - exclusively during the Communist years, is to the Vrana Palace outside associated with Nazi Germany (sometimes) open to the public. Sofi a. This royal palace is now and Stalin’s Soviet empire.

A photograph of Soﬁ a Dimitrov mausoleum from 1957

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Reviewing the Summer Mausolea Crawl Frances Sands and Ann-Marie Akehurst recall the MMT visit to selected mausolea in North Yorkshire

It was far from grim ‘up north’. On one of the hottest days of the summer, 27 intrepid members of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust ventured as far as North Yorkshire to join members of the York Georgian Society. There we undertook a tour of early modern mausolea in that county. Our tour boasted architectural contrasts in both scale and form, ranging from the imposing seriousness of Hawksmoor’s towering Howard Mausoleum drum, to the diminutive burial marker of the Smyth pyramid at Sharow. The tour comprised four mausolea, starting at Castle Howard, and then east along the Ryedale ridges to the neighbouring estate of Hovingham to see the Worsley Mausoleum; west to Ripon and Sharow to visit the Smyth Mausoleum, and then fi nally south to the Thompson Mausoleum at Little Ouseburn. Meeting our coach in the York Memorial Gardens The imposing facade of the Howard Mausoleum, Castle Howard we made our way to Castle (photograph: Ian Johnson) Howard where we had the of the Four Winds. Usually which refl ected a generalised great pleasure of a private tour closed to the public, we were reverence for Antiquity manifest with the Castle Howard Curator, given dispensation to enter it across the estate. Dr Christopher Ridgeway. He – on such a hot day we were From the Temple our group conducted an explanation of all surprised by the cool interior made its way across a mile of the incidental buildings on the of the Temple – and we were fi elds, beyond the boundary of estate that comprise a dynastic all captivated by Christopher’s the Castle Howard gardens into memorial landscape. We made explanation of the cosmati fl oor, the wider park, and towards the our way across the south constructed with fragments iconic Howard Mausoleum. The front of the house, passed the from St Paul’s Cathedral, and cross-country approach to the famous Atlas fountain, and the busts of Roman Emperors Mausoleum is breath-taking. along the avenue to the Temple

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Castle Howard Mausoleum for us to access the interior of Smyth Mausoleum at St John’s Sitting prominently on top of a the mausoleum. The building Church, Sharow. It is not much hill, the building rose ahead of covers a considerable area more than a large tombstone us, proving to be larger and sadly of ground to the north of the really, but the Church Warden more in need of conservation church. It is largely submerged had kindly cut the grass to than one can possibly know and has a low-pitched aff ord an unimpeded view of from photographs or distant pyramidal roof with a central this small but perfectly formed views. Repairs to the building fi nial. There is a porch to the pyramid. It was built in memory are estimated to cost £5 million south with a Chi-Rho symbol of Jessie (d.1896), the wife – a seemingly impossible sum. in relief in the gable end, and of the Astronomer Royal for With hard hats applied we fi rst steps leading down to a wooden Scotland, Charles Piazzi entered the surprisingly light door. It is probable that Thomas Smyth, who founded more than and secular chapel, before Worsley, who built Hovingham fi fty meteorological stations in plunging down into the gloom Hall, also commissioned this Scotland and wrote over one of the catacombs beneath. mausoleum in the churchyard hundred scientifi c papers. The Only around half of the next to his house. Since the inscription describes her as ‘his locculi are occupied, with the mid-eighteenth century many faithful friend and companion builder, the 3rd Earl of Carlisle family members have been through forty years of varied located immediately inside the buried there but the vault also scientifi c experiences by land entrance. Vaulted and centrally contains that of a former nanny. and sea… as well as underneath planned, the catacombs are and upon the GREAT arranged in lobes around a Smyth Mausoleum PYRAMID of EGYPT’. As time central space which supports After a pleasant drive west, went on Smyth had become the chapel above. Although this with wonderful views across convinced that this pyramid is a darker and lower space, it Ryedale, and the descent of had messages mysteriously retains an open and airy feel. the precipitous Sutton Bank hidden in its measurements, Given the opportunity to visit, escarpment, we arrived at the but his off er to interpret them to one can truly sympathise with Horace Walpole’s declaration The Smyth Mausoleum refects 19th century taste for Egyptian that ‘the Castle Howard monumentality (photo from the MMT website) Mausoleum would tempt one to be buried alive’. The grandeur and dignity of this enormously well-known and infl uential building is diffi cult to describe. Only the rare privilege of a visit can convey the sheer spectacle and innovation that one discovers there.

Worsley Mausoleum After lunch, we quickly assembled to continue our journey, visiting next the Worsley Mausoleum at the Church of All Saints, Hovingham. Here Sir William Worsley had kindly arranged

9 Mausolus - Winter 2016 the Royal Society in 1874 was (Henry Thompson himself and Port. The Thompsons were declined, causing him to resign his family). It occupies a ﬁ shtail close friends and business his fellowship. The Smyth pane – a tabula ansata – a form associates who had married Mausoleum bore testament with sepulchral associations in into the family in 1681. to the interest in Egyptian Antiquity of which this is one Back on the coach, we monumentality at the time, of the earliest examples in arrived at the Memorial contrasted well with the larger England, and a design theme Gardens perfectly on time – a Worsley mausoleum, and was continued on the inscription testament to the excellence of appropriate to the interests of panels in the crypt. our driver – and the majority of its commissioner. Thanks to the York the MMT contingent departed Conservation trust, we were for their trains south. The Thompson Mausoleum allowed to enter the mausoleum trip provided an opportunity After tea at the delightful Half and even to access the crypt. for us not only to visit some Moon Inn, Sharow, we motored The interior is simply plain and spectacular and important early down through Boroughbridge surprisingly light and – for the modern mausolea, but also to to the Thompson Mausoleum, second time that day – we make friends in another society Little Ouseburn that is located carefully navigated a descent, – an exercise worth repeating. in the former estate of Kirby this time without hard hats. Hall. It was constructed in 1742 Inside, are many burial places For details of forthcoming MMT for a family of successful wine for not only members of the trips, see the events section of merchants whose travelling Thompson Family, but also this magazine and check the resulted in a sophisticated the distinguished members of website: http://www.mmtrust. cultural understanding. the merchant community the org.uk/news_events Particularly interesting details Crofts; think of Croft Original of the Thompson Mausoleum include a pseudoperipteral rotunda of the Roman Doric order with a plain low drum and shallow lead dome. Its use of a baseless Doric order for thirteen columns encircling the drum is naturally unusual, but there are other examples in North Yorkshire including at Thomas Worsley’s Riding School at Hovingham. The mausoleum – built before Kirby Hall – forms part of a suite of Romanising features on the estate, reﬂ ecting its location on a Roman Road, and bears a family resemblance to several Roman temples, in particular the Tomb of Caecelia Metella on the Roman Appian Way. The inscription over the entrance states ‘HENRICUS The Thompson Mausoleum, Little Ouseburn THOMPSON SIBI ET SUIS FF’ (photograph: Ian Johnson)

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Hope Mausoleum and a Regency Rebirth Alexander Bagnall shares how local volunteers & the MMT revived both the mausoleum & a Georgian estate at Deepdene That the building was Grade II* listed despite being buried to roof level, attests to the signiﬁ cance of the structure, not only as part of Deepdene but also as a unique survivor of Hope’s work. The original splendour of its topographical setting, too, was largely lost. Since active management ceased in 1924, the parkland around the mausoleum had become overgrown with scrubby sycamore and laurel. Its relationship to the historic

Hope’s remarkable mausoleum restored along with its stately setting

In 2010, the Mausolea and The Trust had approached Monuments Trust launched its the structure’s owner (Mole campaign to rescue the fi nal Valley District Council) nearly resting place of the Regency a decade earlier to off er their arbiter of taste, Thomas Hope. help in rescuing this forgotten The Trust, which worked in and largely buried structure. partnership with Mole Valley Following the 2008 exhibition District Council, is delighted to on Hope at the Victoria and report that the restoration of the Albert Museum, and later at The The Georgian edifi ce emerges Hope Mausoleum is complete. Bard Centre New York, curated dramatically. The project rescued the last by Philip Hewat-Jaboor and surviving complete structure Professor David Watkin, the garden was obscured by of the enigmatic Hope and importance of the building was secondary woodland and an inspired a community eff ort to again highlighted. As a result, extensive golf course. reveal the hidden remnants the Council requested help. In But the magic of the of its surrounding landscape; April 2010 the Trust had gained place and its potential for one of the country’s great lost access to the building and a full revitalisation was keenly felt estates, Deepdene. survey was carried out. by the local community. Before

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long a group of determined led through the surviving 70 volunteers was working twice acres. We hoped to tell the a week with bowsaws at the story of this once famed estate ready – uncovering paths to a fresh audience in new and and revealing views. It soon imaginative ways. became apparent that the The mausoleum was the fi rst mausoleum would benefi t building to be repaired, with its from being reconnected to its entrance unsealed, stonework Georgian landscape. So the repaired and replica external Deepdene trail was born. ironwork installed, as detailed in The volunteers continued the winter bulletin of Mausolus over the subsequent years 2015. A wonderful fi nishing to carefully uncover the touch has been provided network of footpaths and rides, by Jonathan Sainsbury who enabling us to understand has supplied a remarkable better how the estate once Egyptian settee from Hope’s fl owed. In the meantime, the Duchess Street house after the mausoleum was carefully dug original at Buscot Park. This out, where possible by hand, has been a powerfully visual and fragments of demolished tool to engage visitors and help courtyard were recorded for them understand something of future reinstatement. What Hope’s remarkable style. emerged from the soft Surrey A path through the golf Greensand, in a scene club links the mausoleum to reminiscent of Howard Carter the garden, which reconnects in Egypt, was a remarkable the historic paths into the Neo-Grecian tomb of startling Dene. In the gardens, the simplicity. Hope’s interest in two built features – the grotto the pure, early classical forms and embattled tower have of architecture was made also been restored. The powerfully manifest in this quiet amphitheatre garden was the corner of Dorking. hub of the telecommunications Fuelled by an exciting vision centre for Southern Railways at of what could be reclaimed, a Deepdene during WWII, which bid to the National Lottery Fund it had bought as an emergency followed, and in March 2015 a war measure in 1939. This had £1 million grant was awarded resulted in two lavatory blocks to restore the Hope Mausoleum being erected which obscured and garden features. We the embattled tower and the aimed to link it to the estate loss of the parterre which had using the original paths that been in situ since the mid 17th century. The early tunnel (left) The team and the changing face of the mausoleum. Philip entrances were also revealed, Hewat Jaboor, co-curator of the the interior of which formed 2008 Thomas Hope exhibition at the the hub of Southern Railways V&A, experiences the interior from a telecommunications centre replica of Hope’s Egyptian settee. during the war. These WWII elements were assessed,

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they navigate this secluded enigmatic landscape. There had been two previous attempts to gain access to this famed landscape in the last 30 years, but looking back it is clear that it was the mausoleum that helped pull the various organisations and people together. Whilst the landscape seemed obscure and intangible, the experience of standing within the last complete Hope building – unchanged since its creation in 1818, gently revealed something of the A glorious summer view of the restored Deepdene Trail man and his vision. As the recorded and the loo blocks parterre an authentic Hopeian project progresses, it is worth removed to enable the garden focal point. refl ecting on how this simple to be read much as it had from The Heritage Lottery funding structure has led to the start of Hope’s time until the outbreak has not only enabled all these unearthing of one of England’s of war. A plan to gain access to physical works but also a great lost landscapes. the tunnels to tell the later story The site opened to the of the garden beckons. public in September. Works at The fi nal landscape work Deepdene continue however, has been the reinstatement of and the patina of time will the parterre. Early photographs help blend in what has been of the garden show the centre reinstated. We are now working of the parterre surmounted by a on replanting more fl ower bronze statue of Silinus which beds, repairing the fl int steps was sold in the 1917 sale. This that connect the garden to the was then briefl y replaced by one site of the former temple and of the two Coade Stone lions negotiating for a much needed visitor car park. Visitors can that sat at the front of the house Digital technologies such as an (which miraculously survived App supplement traditional visitor once again experience the very the sale). A photograph from engagement resources garden that inspired visitors this period shows a rather from John Aubrey through to forlorn looking lion missing its programme of activities to Benjamin Disraeli. Thanks to front paws. Fortunately the enable people to get involved so many, Deepdene has been other lion had been saved by and share their memories gently woken from its slumber. Peter Hone in 1969 and is now of Deepdene. The newly It feels very much that ‘Hope owned by Philip Hewat-Jaboor. launched website, virtual tour Springs Eternal’. Philip has supported and reconstruction of the 1825 guided the project throughout landscape and App, along with For further information on the and very generously arranged more traditional interpretation newly opened Deepdene Trail, for a replica of the surviving materials such as information visit the website: Deepdene Lion to be made boards and maps, aim to www.deepdenetrail.co.uk by Coade Limited, giving the guide and inform the visitor as

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Bringing back the Barrow Charles Wagner presents the revival of the long barrow

Nowadays, with increasing frequency, people are opting for natural burial sites that off er inspiring architecture and designed landscapes. With this apparently modern shift has come a return to the limelight of the prehistoric long-barrow. ‘Long barrows’ or ‘columbrarium’ that have been constructed in the countryside in Wiltshire and Cambridgeshire by Sacred Stones Ltd based in Bedfordshire http://www. sacredstones.co.uk/. The company came about after a mason and builder heard that Wiltshire farmer Tim Daw was seeking planning permission to construct a new long barrow from reinforced concrete covered with earth. The mason persuaded him to construct from masonry. The top soil in a fi eld is excavated, and a masonry structure built of front elevation with entrance passage which has side passages off into circular chambers with a honeycomb of niches forming the wall. Each passage and chamber is given a stone domed roof and then earth is backfi lled around and over the top to make the humped back of the long barrow. Beautifully constructed The interior of Willow Row (image from the Sacred Stones website) chambers, or columbaria, have niches built in the natural 310mm tall and is designed the size of the urns up to six limestone walls made of local for the storage of cremated can be placed in each niche stone. Each niche is about 2ft remains in urns: they hold one which can be sealed with a 620mm deep and wide and 1ft or two urns but depending on memorial stone.

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Ice Age have been used to form the entrance wall, with local stone from the Peterborough area. At this site, the local village and church have been involved and supportive. Sacred Stones have another site under construction in the Wye Valley and a further one being laid out in Shropshire. They have another four sites under discussion at present. The Long Barrow fi ts a rural model, addressing the growing shortage of burial plots Willow Row’s corbelled roof (image from the Sacred Stones website) and even Gardens of Rest for The fi rst new Long Barrow arrangement, the interior of our conurbations, and fostering was constructed at Cannings the barrow is kept locked. The natural spaces that are inspiring Cross, All Cannings near entrance passage is aligned to to visit. Devizes in Wiltshire from the sunrise of the winter solstice Sacred Stones is creating 2014. All Cannings lies within when the rising sun shines into burial solutions that prioritise the Marlborough Downs the entrance and illuminates the environment, both area of outstanding natural the internal stone passageway. aesthetically and ecologically. beauty between Avebury and A second Long Barrow has The only cause for regret is Stonehenge. This ancient been completed by Sacred that individual, architecturally landscape is renowned for its Stones on their own site at designed mausolea and chalk downland with its ancient Willow Row near St Neots in monuments will not feature. history and plenty of barrows. Cambridgeshire. They took The fi eld is open to the public trouble choosing the site and The Natural Death Centre www. during daylight hours, except aligning the barrow. Sarsen naturaldeath.org.uk lists every on open days and by special stones, glacial deposits from the natural burial site in the UK.

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2017 EVENTS SATURDAY 13 MAY Newman’s Coﬃ n Furniture Factory, Birmingham: A return visit to see the restored building and its contents together with visits to Key Hill and Warston Lane cemeteries led by Dr Ian Dungavell

FRIDAY 16 TO SUNDAY 18 JUNE Weekend tour of selected Norfolk Mausolea Led by Dr Julian Litten

SATURDAY 8 JULY Annual General Meeting At West Norwood Cemetery

SATURDAY 12 AUGUST A day in Worcestershire featuring a visit to Great Witley, England’s ﬁ nest Roccoco church

NOVEMBER Date and venue to be announced A talk about the Sculptor, Ivan Mestrovic, by Roger Bowdler and Gavin Stamp

The Gazetteer A closing notice from the Secretary

Over the past few weeks John put together under Teresa to collect information on the Beattie, our Gazetteer Offi cer, Sladen’s direction and each current state of any mausoleum and I have been tidying up the trustee was given an area of the near their home, or indeed any entries in the online Gazetteer. country in order to catalogue as they encounter elsewhere on This has included adding any new many mausolea as was possible. their travels. A guidance sheet, information found in the fi les held Since those early days we have compiled by trustee Dr Fances in the offi ce and uploading quite expanded the Gazetteer to include Sands explaining exactly how to a large number of photographs mausolea in the Isle of Man, collect the information is available, not previously included. We Scotland and N Ireland, with a by email or post from myself. have also checked out anomalies smattering in the Republic of Please let me know if you think you in the entries, included a few Ireland and one in Wales. can help in this valuable task. We new ones and have embarked Most of the condition reports are designating 2017 as the year on the lugubrious task of adding hark back to the year 2002 so of the Great Gazetteer Update so postcodes to them all. we are now looking to involve I hope very much that some of you The Gazetteer was originally as many members as possible will feel able to assist us.