Pair of Mausolea is a Grade II* listed building in the Runnymede local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 August 1989. Mausolea.

Pair of Mausolea

WRENN ID
roaming-timber-crow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Runnymede
Constituency
Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 August 1989
Type
Mausolea
Address
Pair of Mausolea, St Judes Road
OS grid reference
SU 993 708
Coordinates
51.42758, -0.57291
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

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.

Local climate

Pair of Mausolea sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Church of Saint Simon and Saint Jude Grade II* 42 m
  2. Methodist Church Grade II 341 m
  3. Royal Holloway College entrance gates and lodge Grade II 395 m
  4. 48, Harvest Road Grade II 403 m
  5. 49, Harvest Road Grade II 407 m
  6. Dalkeith House Grade II 416 m
  7. The Lodge Hotel Grade II 452 m
  8. Royal Holloway College, Statue in North Quadrangle Grade II 498 m
  9. Royal Holloway College Grade I 530 m
  10. Royal Holloway College, Statue in South Quadrangle Grade II 564 m