Survey Data
Reg No
16316022
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Mausoleum
Date
1830 - 1835
Coordinates
286797, 188863
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay single-stage mausoleum, built 1832, on a square plan. Now disused. Granite ashlar pyramid-topped roof. Granite ashlar battered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth on granite ashlar battered base with cut-granite stringcourse below "Cavetto"-detailed cornice. Pointed-arch door opening (north) with cut-limestone panelled step, and cut-granite surround having chamfered reveals framing flat iron gate. Barrel vaulted interior with empty columbarium. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Saint Mary's Church (Baltinglass).
Appraisal
A mausoleum erected by Benjamin O'Neale Stratford (1746-1833), fourth Earl of Aldborough of Stratford Lodge (Lewis 1837 I, 174), representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century of Baltinglass with the architectural value of the composition, one recalling the earlier Howard Mausoleum (1785) near Arklow (see 16404006), confirmed by such attributes as the compact square plan form; the construction in a silver-grey granite demonstrating good quality workmanship; and the eye-catching pyramid-topped roof.