Hoare Mausoleum

This mausoleum belonging to the Hoare family of Luscombe Castle was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-78), architect of St Pancras Station and the Albert Memorial. Situated in the south-west corner of the churchyard of St Gregory the Great, Dawlish, Devon, it is a large Gothic Revival mausoleum built in the form of a sepulcral enclosure. Like a Scottish ‘lair’ it has no roof, being merely surrounded by walls. The entrance is via an archway with an iron gate and the earliest tomb is dated 1863. The mausoleum is Grade II listed but the stonework seems to be quite badly weathered in places and is perhaps due for some restoration work.

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