Packe Family Mausoleum And Attached Railings To Rear Of Number 23

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SZ09SE PINEWOOD ROAD, Branksome Park 958-1/6/207 (East side) 10/08/81 Packe Family Mausoleum and attached railings to rear of No.23 (Formerly Listed as: PINEWOOD ROAD, Branksome Park Packe Family Mausoleum to rear of No.25)

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Mausoleum. Mid C19, possibly by William Burn. Limestone ashlar with limestone roof. Rectangular chapel above burial vault. Entrance to N end. Norman style. Flight of 7 stone steps flanked by plain stone plinth, leading to double-leaf door. 2 orders of shafts to doorway with cushion capitals, roll-moulded round-arched head, continuous narrow sunk quadrant moulding innermost and hoodmould. Blank arches either side of door with 1 order of shafts, roll-moulded round-arched head and hoodmoulds. Roll-mould circular window to gable with hoodmould and beakhead label stops. Sides have 3 pairs of blank windows with roll-moulded round-arched heads and hoodmoulds with label stops. South end has triple window with stepped round-arched heads, blank below transom with diaper patterns. Foliated gable coss (renewed). Hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded stone eaves and gables. Roll-moulded plinth, cill band and moulded impost band. INTERIOR: chapel has black and white tiled floor in a trompe l'oeil pattern and stained glass to gable window. Brick-lined vault with 2 arched double tomb screens either side. Brick tunnel vault. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached fleur-de-lys headed railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: believed to date from 1869 and to have been designed by William Burn, architect of family home Branksome Towers (now demolished). Charles Packe began the laying out of Branksome Park.

Listing NGR: SZ0675090169