Trafford Mausoleum | |
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Type | Mausoleum |
Location | Wroxham, Norfolk |
Coordinates | 52°42′25″N 1°23′52″E / 52.7069°N 1.3978°E |
Built | C.1830 |
Architect | Anthony Salvin |
Architectural style(s) | Gothic Revival (Early English style) |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Trafford Mausoleum, St Mary's Churchyard |
Designated | 16 May 1984 |
Reference no. | 1050869 |
The Trafford Mausoleum, is a memorial in Wroxham, Norfolk, England. Commissioned after the death of Sigismund Trafford Southwell in 1827, the mausoleum was designed by Anthony Salvin in Gothic Revival style. It is a Grade II listed structure.
The building has been used to bury members of the Trafford family. [1] The Traffords of Wroxham Hall (now demolished) held land in the area from the Middle Ages. [2]
Sigismund Trafford Southwell, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1818, died in 1827. His wife Margaret approached Anthony Salvin to design a mausoleum which was constructed c.1830. [3] It was built in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Wroxham. [4] Salvin exhibited the design at the Royal Academy in 1830. [4] The style is Early English Gothic, [4] described in the Norfolk 1: Norwich and the North-East volume of Pevsner as a; "correct, rather cold later 13th century style". [5] The mausoleum is a Grade II listed structure. [4]