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mausoleum — John Street Lower

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mausoleum — John Street Lower
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Freestanding single-bay single-stage mausoleum, built 1828, on a rectangular plan. Part overgrown cut-granite stepped roof with cast-iron "flèche" or "spirelet" pinnacles to corners. Granite ashlar walls on cut-granite plinth with cut-granite monolithic piers to corners supporting beaded cornice on blind frieze. Tudor-headed door opening between paired clustered colonettes with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite flush block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing cast-iron panelled double doors having quatrefoil-perforated overpanel. Set in unkempt graveyard with crocketed cast-iron railings to perimeter centred on crocketed cast-iron gate.

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