Mausoleum Of Julius Beer In Highgate (Western) Cemetery

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TQ2887SW 798-1/5/1557

SWAIN'S LANE (West side), CAMDEN

Mausoleum of Julius Beer in Highgate (Western) Cemetery

(Formerly Listed as: HIGHGATE (WESTERN) CEMETERY Mausoleum to Julius Beer)

14/05/74

GV II*

Mausoleum situated above the Columbarium (qv). c1878. To the designs of William Oscar Wilford Bouwens van der Boijen, and executed by John Oldrid Scott, based on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Stone. Square plan. Channelled clasping pilasters support similarly rusticated Diocletian windows with continuous hoodmoulds and antefixae, from behind which rises a pyramidal roof, carved to appear as tiled, with oculi and cross finial. Panels beneath windows have Ionic pilasters. Architraved doorway with cornice and inscription "Mausoleum of Julius Beer" in panel below; bronze doors by Farmer & Brindley. INTERIOR: in Quattrocento style with marble carving by HH Armstead. 2 sarcophagi; Beer's opposite entrance, with swagged frieze, standing in front of a round-arched high relief panel depicting an angel raising a winged child. The whole framed by paired Corinthian columns, on pedestals, with enriched dentil entablature. Lit by patterned stained glass windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: Julius Beer made his fortune from the Stock Exchange and owned The Observer newspaper. He died in 1880 but had bought the plot and commissioned the architect in 1876.

Listing NGR: TQ2833487151