Thompson Mausoleum Approximately Twenty Metres South West of the Church of the Holy Trinity is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1966. Mausoleum.
Thompson Mausoleum Approximately Twenty Metres South West of the Church of the Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- shifting-moat-holly
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1966
- Type
- Mausoleum
- OS grid reference
- SE 452 611
- Coordinates
- 54.04408, -1.31115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thompson Mausoleum, located approximately twenty metres south-west of the Church of the Holy Trinity, is a mid-18th century mausoleum built for Henry Thompson of Kirby Hall, who died in 1760. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a lead roof. The structure is a rotunda surrounded by an attached Greek Doric colonnade, which includes a triglyph frieze and cornice. This colonnade supports a plain drum and a ribbed domed roof.
The east-facing doorway is sealed with an inscribed memorial slab that lists the names of those interred within. The inscription reads:
HOC IN MAUSOLEO
IACENT SEPULTI
HI QUORUM SUBTUS
INSCRIBUNTUR NOMINA
The doorway is framed by an architrave with a pulvinated frieze and cornice, beneath a raised rectangular panel inscribed with:
HENRICUS THOMPSON
SIBI ET SUIS
Local climate
Thompson Mausoleum Approximately Twenty Metres South West of the Church of the Holy Trinity receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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