Listed building details
Location: (West side) Mausoleum of Julius Beer in Highgate (Western) Cemetery
Street: Swain's Lane
Grade: II*
Reference No: 798-1-15575
Date of listing: May 14 1974 12:00AM
Description:
Mausoleum situated above the Columbarium (qv). c1878. By John Oldrid Scott, based on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Stone. Square plan. Channelled clasping pilasters support similarly rusticated Diocletian windows with continuous hoodmoulds and antefixae, from behind which rises a pyramidal roof, carved to appear as tiled, with oculi and cross finial. Panels beneath windows have Ionic pilasters. Architraved doorway with cornice and inscription "Mausoleum of Julius Beer" in panel below; good bronze gates by the Bromsgrove Guild. INTERIOR: in Quattrocento style with marble carving by HH Armstead. 2 sarcophagi; Beer's opposite entrance, with swagged frieze, standing in front of a round-arched high relief panel depicting an angel raising a winged child. The whole framed by paired Corinthian columns, on pedestals, with enriched dentil entablature. Lit by patterned stained glass windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: Julius Beer made his fortune from the Stock Exchange and owned The Observer newspaper. He died in 1880 but had bought the plot and commissioned the architect in 1876.
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