Glenesk Mausoleum, St Marylebone Cemetery

TQ 2589 22/6

EAST END ROAD (south side), N2 Glenesk Mausoleum St Marylebone Cemetery

II GV

Mausoleum. 1899 by Arthur Blomfield for Lord Glenesk. Limestone ashlar gable stone; slate roof. Rectangular plan. Middle pointed style. Corner buttresses. 3-bay east and west elevations have 2-light Decorated-style window set in gabled slightly-projecting central bay flanked by lancets. North gable has carved panel of Christ flanked by angels and soldiers over inscription and 3-light window of graduated lancets above pointed-arched doorway with foliate spandrels, set within double-chamfered pointed arch; kneeling figures to finials of buttresses. South gable has rose window with dogtooth carving, 3-light window of graduated lancets and kneeling figures to finials of buttresses. Interior: mosaic tile floor; engaged shafts with moulded capitals to springers of fine 3-bay vaulted roof with foliate-carved bosses. South end has marble wall shafts with foliate capitals to rerearch of rose window and fine stiff-leaf carved frieze over fine inlaid tile reredos and altar. 3 fine Roman-style sarcophagi to Lord Glenesk (d.1908), son Oliver (d.1905) and wife (d.1898). Fine stained glass.

Listing NGR: TQ2596989570