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Latitude: 51.4814 / 51°28'52"N
Longitude: 0.0026 / 0°0'9"E
OS Eastings: 539156
OS Northings: 177725
OS Grid: TQ391777
Mapcode National: GBR L1.K9W
Mapcode Global: VHHNQ.0176
Plus Code: 9F32F2J3+G2
Entry Name: Mausoleum of Greenwich Hospital in Grounds of Number 40
Listing Date: 27 May 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1288809
English Heritage Legacy ID: 398688
ID on this website: 101288809
Location: Greenwich, London, SE10
County: London
District: Greenwich
Electoral Ward/Division: Blackheath Westcombe
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Greenwich
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Greenwich St Alfege
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Mausoleum
TQ 3977 MAZE HILL
786-/27/10020 Mausoleum of Greenwich
Hospital in grounds of
no 40
GV II
Mausoleum. Built under the direction of Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1713-14 to serve as a
mausoleum for the use of the officers of the Greenwich Hospital and their families. Richard
Billingshurst was the bricklayer. Reroofed and arched openings filled up c1820. A 3-bay single
storey structure of brown brick with rubbed red brick dressings, stone coping and slate roof
End pediments with brick pilasters and round-headed arch with C20 plank door. The 3 arched
openings on the north side have been partially bricked in, partially glazed in and the central
opening now has a door. The floor inside is paved with stone slabs. Below the structure is a
3 bay groined vault of brick with a floor probably of beaten earth. At the time of inspection
this was full of intact, semi-preserved and collapsed coffins of lead and wood together with the
decayed relics of their former charges. Some iron bars, and a curved section of brickwork on
the west (or park) side show where the entrance to the vault originally was. This structure
ceased to be used for interments in the late 1740s. Shown on 1749 engraving of Greenwich
Park in London Magazine, but with original triple gabled roof with higher central section.
[See Mrs Basil Holmes, "The London Burial Grounds" 1896 p.178 and p.313].
Listing NGR: TQ3913877750
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