Pair Of Mausolea

The pair of mausolea, built around 1860 by E B Lamb for the Fitzroy Somerset family, are located in Englefield Green. They are constructed from limestone and banded red brick, featuring fishscale and plain tile roofs. Each mausoleum is rectangular in shape and has offset stone buttresses at the corners. The roofs are slightly splayed, with stone copings; the western mausoleum is finished with fishscale tiles, while the eastern one has plain tiles on the entrance canopy, which is topped with a cross. The western mausoleum is missing some bolts.

The entrances have simple chamfered designs with vertically boarded doors that include ornate ironwork hinges and door furniture. The canopy has moulded timber bargeboards. The rear of each mausoleum features paired lancet windows, while the sides have single lancets; some glazing and staybars are missing. Inside, there is a single chest tomb. The eastern mausoleum has a plaque dedicated to Amy, the wife of Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, who died on June 26, 1889. The western mausoleum contains three illegible plaques for the Somerset family and wall tablets with inscriptions. The south face has a partly damaged inscription for Mary Caroline Somerset, the beloved daughter of Colonel Poulett, MP for the County of Monmouth, and Barbara, his wife, as well as the second daughter of Lord Char, who was the son of Henry V, Duke of Beaufort KG, born November 29, 1852, and died in Gibraltar on December 30, 1862.