Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery: Baldwin Mausoleum is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. Mausoleum.

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery: Baldwin Mausoleum

WRENN ID
narrow-nave-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1999
Type
Mausoleum
Address
Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery: Baldwin Mausoleum, Lewes Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 324 057
Coordinates
50.83642, -0.12011
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Baldwin Mausoleum, located in Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery, is dedicated to Edmund Chaplin Baldwin, although his birth and death dates are not recorded on the structure. It was built around 1930 by architect John Leopold Denman and is situated approximately 55 meters southeast of the cemetery chapel. The mausoleum features a rectangular plan and has a neo-Byzantine style, characterized by a central dome and round-arched mouldings that rise above the cornice on the north and south sides. It includes transept-like arms with similar arches extending to the east and west. The west side has a round-arched entrance flanked by engaged columns, with capitals and archivolts adorned with interlacing designs. The entrance is fitted with a bronze door that bears inscriptions, and there are windows on the north and south sides shaped like a stylized cross.

Local climate

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery: Baldwin Mausoleum receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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