The Mausolea and Monuments Trust is a charity for the "protection and preservation of mausolea and funerary monuments situated in Great Britain and Ireland." The trust was founded in 1997 by the architectural historian

Jill Allibone Jill Spencer Allibone (26 April 1932 – 3 February 1998) was an English architectural historian and the founder of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust. She wrote studies of Anthony Salvin and George Devey, and was a justice of the peace for over 20 ...

(1932–1998). Tim Knox, then the director of the

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and the trust's first chairman, described it as “the dottiest conservation cause in the land”. The trust has responsibility for six mausolea: * The Bateman Mausoleum, Morley,

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* The Heathcote Mausoleum,

Hursley Hursley is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Hampshire, England with a population of around 900 in 2011. It is located roughly midway between Romsey and Winchester on the A3090. Besides the village the parish includes th ...

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* The Wynne Ellis Mausoleum,

Whitstable Whitstable () is a town on the north coast of Kent, England, at the convergence of the The Swale, Swale and the Greater Thames Estuary, north of Canterbury and west of Herne Bay, Kent, Herne Bay. The town, formerly known as Whitstable-on-Se ...

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* The Nash Mausoleum,

Farningham Farningham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located south-east of Swanley. It has a population of 1,314. History Farningham is believed to be home to Neolithic human occupancy – flint and othe ...

* The Guise Mausoleum,

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* The Boileau Mausoleum, Ketteringham,

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The trust publishes a regular journal titled ''Mausolus'', and researches and maintains a

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of mausolea in Great Britain and Ireland.

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External links

The Mausolea & Monuments Trust website
Charities based in London Architecture in the United Kingdom Architecture in Ireland 1997 establishments in the United Kingdom Funerary art Mausoleums in the United Kingdom

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