Mausolea and Monuments Trust
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The Mausolea and Monuments Trust is a charity for the "protection and preservation of mausolea and funerary monuments situated in Great Britain and Ireland."[1] The trust was founded in 1997 by the architectural historian Jill Allibone (1932–1998).[2] Tim Knox, then the director of the Soane Museum and the trust's first chairman, described it as “the dottiest conservation cause in the land”.[3]
The trust has responsibility for six mausolea:
- The Bateman Mausoleum, Morley, Derbyshire[4]
- The Heathcote Mausoleum, Hursley, Hampshire[5]
- The Wynne Ellis Mausoleum, Whitstable, Kent[6]
- The Nash Mausoleum, Farningham, Kent[7]
- The Guise Mausoleum, Elmore, Gloucestershire[8]
- The Boileau Mausoleum, Ketteringham, Norfolk[9]
The trust publishes a regular journal titled Mausolus, and researches and maintains a gazetteer of mausolea in Great Britain and Ireland.[10]