Cemetery, Rodway Mausoleum is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1976. Mausoleum.
Cemetery, Rodway Mausoleum
- WRENN ID
- quiet-wicket-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1976
- Type
- Mausoleum
- Address
- Cemetery, Rodway Mausoleum, the Down, Trowbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 589
- Coordinates
- 51.32924, -2.19874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rodway Mausoleum is a cemetery building constructed in 1870, designed and built by William Smith of Trowbridge. The front features a triple gabled arcade with dogtooth and moulded verge detailing at the coping, adorned with gargoyles at the bases. It has four pink granite shafts topped with floral caps. The main gable originally had a saddlestone with a cross, and below it is a trefoil-headed niche that houses a statue of the Redeemer, created by Palmer and Shepheard of Bristol. Above this niche is a trefoil arch, which has an oculus filled with wrought iron spikes and is supported by angels above the lintel. A motto is inscribed on the lintel. The doors are heavily decorated with wrought iron strapwork made by Lucas, and there are steps leading into a now derelict vault. The sides of the mausoleum are battered, featuring corner gargoyles, and the top is barrel vaulted with an apse at the end.
Local climate
Cemetery, Rodway Mausoleum receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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