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 2 ...

(1932–1998).

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, 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,

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* The Heathcote Mausoleum,

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* The Wynne Ellis Mausoleum,

Whitstable Whitstable () is a town on the north coast of Kent adjoining the convergence of the Swale Estuary and the Greater Thames Estuary in southeastern England, north of Canterbury and west of Herne Bay. The 2011 Census reported a population of 32 ...

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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 history – flint and other tools ha ...

* The Guise Mausoleum,

Elmore, Gloucestershire ''For other places with the same name, see Elmore (disambiguation).'' Elmore is a village and civil parish, in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. The village lies on the border of Quedgeley in Gloucester, near the south bank of th ...

* The Boileau Mausoleum,

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Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

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

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of mausolea in Great Britain and Ireland.

References

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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