Baldwin Family Mausoleum
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Location
| Street: | Lewes Road |
| Town: | Brighton |
| Parish: | Brighton |
| Council: | Brighton & Hove City Council |
| County: | East Sussex |
| Postcode: | BN2 |
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| Object setting: | Garden |
| and in: | Religious |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | Extra Mural Cemetery, the 'Rookery', south side, east of the old Anglican Chapel. |
| In the AZ book: | East Sussex |
| Page: | 132 |
| Grid reference: | D5 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
| OS Reference: | TQ3205 |
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Makers
| Name : | John Leopold Denman, F.R.I.B.A |
| Role: | Architect |
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General Information
| Commissioned by: | Baldwin family |
| Construction period: | c1930 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Baldwin family |
| Object listing: | Grade II: of special interest warranting every effort to preserve them |
| Building listing: | II |
| Description: | Faces north. Rectangular mausoleum, Byzantine style. A central dome, round-arched mouldings breaking above the cornice on the north and south sides, with transept-like arms, similarly arched, to east and west. Round, arched entrance in the west side with engaged columns, the capitals and archivolts decorated with interlacing. Set with a bronze door with inscriptions on bronze panles. The mausoleum has windows to the north and south in the form of a stylised cross. The interior is decorated with gold mosaic. |
| Inscription: | TO THE GLORY OF GOD & IN LOVING MEMORY OF EDMUND CHAPLIN BALDWIN O·B·E ALSO OF HARRY BARDSLEY CHAPLIN BALDWIN M·A SON OF THE ABOVE DIED DE 29TH 1937 R·I·P ALSO OF DOROTHY WIFE OF EDMUND CHAPLIN BALDWIN DIED AUG. 6TH 1939 AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN WILLIAM EDMUND BALDWIN SON OF HARRY AND ENA CHAPLIN BALDWIN DIED DEC.18TH 1954 AGED 25 YEARS |
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Classification
| Categories: | Free Standing, Commemorative, Architectural, Funerary |
| Object type1: | Building |
| Object subtype1: | Mausoleum |
| Subject type1: | Non-figurative |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Mausoleum |
| Material: | Stone on a base of black marble |
| Height (cm): | 300 |
| Width (cm): | 200 |
| Depth (cm): | 300 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
| Condition 1 of type: | Structural |
| Condition 1: | Broken or missing parts |
| More details: | Glass of the windows broken. |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 01/05/2008 |
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History
| History: | Baldwin was a Chartered Accountant and lived at 9 Windlesham Avenue, Brighton. He died on 9 June 1935. There is a stained glass window dedicated to Baldwin in St. Peter’s Church, Brighton
The Extra-Mural Cemetery covers land formerly the open arable field of Scabe's Castle, a late-eighteenth-century farm with buildings in Hartington Road. These were demolished in the 1900s when Hartington Place and Hartington Terrace were developed. The Extra-Mural cemetery is the oldest of the three cemeteries on the land. It was originally a private burial ground, laid out on 28 acres in 1850 by the Brighton Extra-Mural Company, 6 acres being the gift of the Marquess of Bristol. The entrance was a castellated gateway with a round tower in Lewes Road, and there were two mortuary chapels designed by A.H.Wilds of which only the Anglican chapel remains. The cemetery was a favourite resort in the nineteenth century and even had a guide book published, but in 1956 the now redundant cemetery was purchased by the corporation and restored as an interesting and picturesque garden of remembrance which contains many impressive Victorian tombs, including those of several important figures in Brighton's history. In the driveway is the borough mortuary which opened in August 1962 and has between 600 and 700 admissions a year. (Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder). The Woodvale Cemetery was opened in 1857. The Woodvale crematorium and chapels are located in this cemetery. The burial ground is Grade II listed and until 1902 was known as the Brighton 'Parochial' cemetery. (Brighton and Hove City Council) The cemetery was consecrated on 14 November 1857 by the then Bishop of Chichester, Dr. A.T. Gilbert |
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References
| Source 1 : | |
| Title: | 'Brighton Cemeteries' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Dale, Antony. |
| Edition: | 1995 Reprint |
| Page: | 17 |
| Publisher: | Brighton Borough Council. Brighton. |
| Source 2 : | |
| Title: | 'Encyclopaedia OF Brighton' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Carder, Timothy |
| Publisher: | East Sussex County Libraries. Lewes. |
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Photographs
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