The Rider Mausoleum is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. Mausoleum.
The Rider Mausoleum
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-grate-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Address
- The Rider Mausoleum, Church Hill, Boughton Monchelsea
- OS grid reference
- TQ 771 499
- Coordinates
- 51.22094, 0.53543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rider Mausoleum is a structure from the 18th century or early 19th century located on the east side of Church Hill in Boughton Monchelsea. It is built from long, thin blocks of evenly-coursed dressed stone, with rectangular walls that stand approximately 6 feet high. The mausoleum features a stone plinth and a tooled stone eaves band, topped with a domed dressed stone roof. There are bulls-eye windows on the east and west sides, each with a raised stone border and keystones. The south gable end has a ribbed door set in a rectangular doorway, which is framed by a raised tooled stone architrave. Above the doorway is a stone coat of arms. The mausoleum is situated in the north-east corner of the churchyard and is associated with the Rider family, who owned Boughton Monchelsea Place from around 1685 to 1938.
Local climate
The Rider Mausoleum receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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