Cemetery, Kingston and Hastings Mausoleum is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1976. Mausoleum.
Cemetery, Kingston and Hastings Mausoleum
- WRENN ID
- shifting-clay-ochre
- 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, Kingston and Hastings Mausoleum, the Down, Trowbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 861 589
- Coordinates
- 51.32978, -2.20057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kingston and Hastings Mausoleum is a cemetery building from the circa 1870s, designed and built by local architect William Smith in a Romanesque style. It features a stone vault that was originally adorned with segmental or possibly triangular dogtooth and roll-moulded caps. The central entrance consists of two orders, showcasing pink granite nook shafts, wide palmette caps, and imposts, along with a chevron lintel that has moulded spaces and a small arcade in the outer order. There are two blind flanking arches, each with single nook shafts that display similar decorative elements on a smaller scale. The mausoleum includes bronze plates commemorating the Rev. Thomas Kingston, who died in 1867, and Rev. J. D. Hastings Trowbridge, who died in 1869, each with a shield above. Notably, the ironwork, crafted by Lucas, features a central door with decorative hinge and handle fretwork made of wrought iron, along with a striking spike array in the tympanum.
Local climate
Cemetery, Kingston and Hastings 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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