A Classical mausoleum, built in ashlar with chamfered quoins and a stepped pyramidal roof. All four sides are identical, each having a centrally placed quoined recess with a semicircular head. The building is surrounded by a low wall from which the iron railings have been removed. The park boundary wall is stepped up at this point so that it gives the impression of forming a plinth to the monument and draws attention to its importance.
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Neo-Classical
Grade II (England and Wales)
1834
The Paynes were a Quaker family who owned land in the vicinity of Wath and attended the Quaker Meeting House in Barnsley. Although Newhill Hall, the Georgian mansion they built for themselves in 1785, was demolished in the 1950s, the grounds which surrounded the house still survive as a public park. It was here that in 1834 that John Payne built his mausoleum on a knoll overlooking the eastern boundary wall. He was evidently a cultured man for, in 1810, he was one of the ‘notables’ who helped Thomas Trebeck, the vicar of Wath, to establish a reading room at the Star public house. He may have been chosen the position of his mausoleum, overlooking a road, to imitate the way in which tombs of the Ancient World were placed next to public highways.
Fair. The stone is very weathered and the railings are gone, but the building is sturdy and the roof intact with only a few weeds growing out of it (2003).
A Fleming, A Walk through Wath (1977);
A Fleming and S Hirst, Wath-Upon-Dearne As It Was (1982).
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Newhill Park
Cemetery Road
Wath-upon-Deane
South Yorkshire
S63 7RD
England