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IX. Das Mausoleum von Brocklesby Park / Lincolnshire
Das wohl schönste Mausoleum Englands (Abb. 1/2) erhebt sich
in den hügeligen Wiesen von Brocklesby Park, einem Landsitz
in Lincolnshire, auf dem Sir William Pelham schon 1603 einen
"very fine stately" Bau (1) errichtet hatte. Das Mausoleum
des späten 18. Jahrhunderts am südlichen Rand des Parks ist
1812 von Thomas Espin (2) ausführlich beschrieben worden:
"THIS sepulchral monument was erected by the
present Lord YARBOROUGH, to perpetuate the
memory of his much lamented and amiable
consort, who in the prime of life was separated
from him and from the world, by a malignant
fever of the brain.
It is situate(d) in his lordship's park near the
village of Limber * upon a commanding eminence
the site of an ancient tumulus, evidently a place
of Roman sepulture; the various urns full of
burnt earth, bones and ashes, together with a
variety of rings, combs, and perforated beads
discovered on laying the foundation, fully justify
such an opinion, it. may therefore with great
propriety be observed, that this elegant classic
building Stands majestically elevated on classic
ground.
* At Limber is a very good inn, near which lord
Yarboroügh has built a lodge where keys are kept to
accomodate strangers who wish to see the building.
It was built from designs of James Wyatt,
esq. and completed under his direction in 1794.
Its form is that of a Grecian temple of the
peripteral kind; the colonnade consists of twelve
fluted doric columns, which stand upon a rus-
ticated basement about fifty-two feet diameter,
these Support a bold entablature, the freize of
which is highly enriched with festoons of roses,
sun-flowers and poppies, suspended from the
horns of that appropriate doric Ornament the
bull's skull over each column, and tied up in two
intervening places by bunches of ribbon; from
the top of this entablature rises a very fine open
balustrade. The external body of the temple
is nearly forty feet diameter, is surrounded by
IX. Das Mausoleum von Brocklesby Park / Lincolnshire
Das wohl schönste Mausoleum Englands (Abb. 1/2) erhebt sich
in den hügeligen Wiesen von Brocklesby Park, einem Landsitz
in Lincolnshire, auf dem Sir William Pelham schon 1603 einen
"very fine stately" Bau (1) errichtet hatte. Das Mausoleum
des späten 18. Jahrhunderts am südlichen Rand des Parks ist
1812 von Thomas Espin (2) ausführlich beschrieben worden:
"THIS sepulchral monument was erected by the
present Lord YARBOROUGH, to perpetuate the
memory of his much lamented and amiable
consort, who in the prime of life was separated
from him and from the world, by a malignant
fever of the brain.
It is situate(d) in his lordship's park near the
village of Limber * upon a commanding eminence
the site of an ancient tumulus, evidently a place
of Roman sepulture; the various urns full of
burnt earth, bones and ashes, together with a
variety of rings, combs, and perforated beads
discovered on laying the foundation, fully justify
such an opinion, it. may therefore with great
propriety be observed, that this elegant classic
building Stands majestically elevated on classic
ground.
* At Limber is a very good inn, near which lord
Yarboroügh has built a lodge where keys are kept to
accomodate strangers who wish to see the building.
It was built from designs of James Wyatt,
esq. and completed under his direction in 1794.
Its form is that of a Grecian temple of the
peripteral kind; the colonnade consists of twelve
fluted doric columns, which stand upon a rus-
ticated basement about fifty-two feet diameter,
these Support a bold entablature, the freize of
which is highly enriched with festoons of roses,
sun-flowers and poppies, suspended from the
horns of that appropriate doric Ornament the
bull's skull over each column, and tied up in two
intervening places by bunches of ribbon; from
the top of this entablature rises a very fine open
balustrade. The external body of the temple
is nearly forty feet diameter, is surrounded by