Sutherland Mausoleum, Trentham
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Sutherland Mausoleum, Trentham
Image: © Brian Deegan Taken: 24 May 2020
Opposite the main gates of Trentham Gardens is the only grade I listed building in Stoke-on-Trent. It features a solid oak door at the front, a window at the rear and an upper storey with four louvred windows, one on each flank. The gloomy interior, with its Greek Cross plan, has tunnel-vaulted arms. The ashlar walls slope inwards on all sides. This mausoleum was built in 1807-8 to the design of Charles Heathcote Tatham of Trentham. In 1907 the bodies of the half-dozen members of the Levison-Gower family laid to rest in the catacombs were removed and buried in special lead coffins elsewhere within the cemetery compound; descriptive tablets were placed above each grave. No.12 Neville Malkin's "Grand Tour" of the Potteries http://www.thepotteries.org/tour/012.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trentham_Mausoleum
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Image Location
Latitude
52.966557
Longitude
-2.197683