Preston Family Mausoleum, Church St. Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1979. Mausoleum.
Preston Family Mausoleum, Church St. Mary
- WRENN ID
- scarred-forge-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1979
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Address
- Preston Family Mausoleum, Church St. Mary, Ellel
- OS grid reference
- SD 481 535
- Coordinates
- 53.97556, -2.79186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Preston family Mausoleum, built in 1873 by architects W. & G. Audsley, is located at Church St. Mary. It was constructed for the Preston family of Ellel Grange. The mausoleum is made of coursed rock-faced sandstone and features a steep slate roof. The walls have a weathered offset above a plinth, and the gables are topped with copings.
The east gable wall contains a doorway with a pointed arch that is moulded in two orders, featuring angle shafts with foliated capitals. Above the doorway, the tympanum displays a carved scene of the Resurrection. On the west side, there is a window with four lights and Geometric tracery.
Inside, the side walls are adorned with five-bay blank arcades that have pointed arches supported by columns with foliated capitals. The western arcades hold memorial tablets, some of which are now damaged. Beneath the west window, there is an inscribed granite tablet framed by a sandstone border with Gothic carving.
Local climate
Preston Family Mausoleum, Church St. Mary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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