Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Ford Mausoleum and Attached Railings 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 Ford Mausoleum and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
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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 Ford Mausoleum and Attached Railings, Lewes Road, the City of Brighton and Hove
OS grid reference
TQ 325 057
Coordinates
50.83653, -0.11921
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ford Mausoleum, located in Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery, was built for Gerard Ford, who lived from 1830 to 1889. It is situated approximately 90 meters east of the cemetery chapel. The mausoleum is constructed of dressed stone and polished granite, featuring a stone roof and designed in the Gothic style.

The entrance is pointed-arched and includes an elaborately subordered and gabled porch on the east side, with doors made of grey polished granite. The mausoleum has clasping buttresses at all corners. On the north and south sides, there are pairs of round-arched panels supported by engaged columns of pink polished granite, which have foliage capitals and hoodmoulds. The south side features inscriptions. The west end showcases a pointed-arched arcade with six bays, also supported by columns of pink polished granite, and includes a west window with three lights and two transoms, creating the appearance of a columbarium. The roof is covered with stone slabs, although some gable-mouldings are missing. Surrounding the mausoleum are railings made of cast and wrought iron.

Local climate

Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery Ford Mausoleum and Attached Railings 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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