Publications
Mausolus is the journal of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust. It is published twice a year and sent free to Trust members, featuring a combination of news items, articles and book reviews. If you would like to submit an article for consideration by the journal, please send all enquiries to the editor via our contact form
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Mausolus
2021 Mausolus Summer
1st July 2021
The Chandos Mausoleum at Stanmore, The Browne Mausoleum & Spiller Vault at Bridgwater, Somerset, The Marlborough Monument and the Chapel of Blenheim Palace, The Royal Vault at Windsor, On Woodside Cemetery, Addolorata Cemetery in Malta and its Mausolea and Monuments, Protecting mausolea, Mausolea I have known, The Project to Restore the Roddam Mausoleum at Ilderton, Northumberland, Updates to Gazetteer, Recordings of MMT on-line talks
2020 Mausolus Winter
1st December 2020
Resurgam! - The Knill Monument, St Ives, Cornwall – Transcending immortality, The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and the bodies of Kim, Final Journey: The untold story of funeral trains, Sir William Chamber’s forgotten masterpiece: a mausoleum for Frederick, Prince of Wales, Arcedeckne Mausoleum at Hacheston, Suffolk, The Digby Mausoleum at Sherborne, The Dixon Mausoleum at Christleton, The curious origins of Sir Joseph Bazalagette’s Mausoleum, Obituary: Clifford Hodgetts OBE LD, Updates to the Gazetteer
2020 Mausolus Summer
1st July 2020
Designing for the Dead, A Matter of Trust: Saving the Hamilton Mausoleum, The Guise Mausoleum at Elmore in Gloucestershire, Life after death: the problems of funding conservation of mausolea as a building type, Updates to Gazetteer, The History of the Heathcote Mausoleum at Hursley
2020 Mausolus Spring
1st March 2020
David Chipperfield Architects extension to San Michele Cemetery Island Venice, Update on the Guise Mausoleum Project, The Revision of London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer, Burton: Exploring Without boundaries, Churchyards by Roger Bowdler
2019 Mausolus Winter
1st January 2020
New York in Highgate Cemetery, A mausoleum, a portrait and a Grand Tour: how neo-classicism came to Elmore, Gloucestershire, Merry Cemetery, Southern Bavarian War Memorials from the Great War
2017 Mausolus Summer
24th January 2018
News, Reviews, Ambrose Bierce on the Exile of the Dead from San Francisco and Hannah Malone on Architecture, Death & Nationhood
2017 Mausolus Winter
1st January 2018
Obituary to Gavin Stamp, Princess Charlotte's mausoleum at Claremont, Printed brass monuments, Campbell mausoleum St Mary's RC Cemetery Kensal Green, Thomas Becket's Shrine
2016 Mausolus Winter
3rd May 2017
Guise mausoleum update, Pop Up Mausoleum, Highgate Cemetery, Hope Mausoleum rebirth....
2016 Mausolus Spring
14th August 2016
Papers presented at the Architecture of Death Conference, Scarisbrick mausoleum, Hapsburg Crypt, Budapest
2016 Mausolus Summer
14th August 2016
Papers presented at the Architecture of Death Conference, Scarisbrick mausoleum, Hapsburg Crypt, Budapest
2015 Mausolus Winter
16th February 2016
Update on Hope, plans for the Guise mausoleum, the Young mausoleum in Hammersmith Cemetery, etc.
2015 Mausolus Summer
4th November 2015
Essay competition resuslts, Reviews, Updates
2014 Mausolus Winter
23rd June 2015
The Jewish Cemetery, Penzance; Wauchope Mausoleum, Edinburgh; Robert Adam, designer of mausolea and monuments
2004 MMT News August
18th May 2015
The Monument to National Liberation, Zizkov (Prague)
2005 MMT News June
18th May 2015
The MMT restores two mausolea; angels in cemeteries
2007 MMT News Winter
18th May 2015
Lucinda Lambton's talk to the 10th anniversary AGM of the the Trust in May 2007
2006 MMT News Summer
18th May 2015
Launch of the MMT Gazetteer on the Net
2012 Mausolus Winter
9th May 2015
the Savage tombs; the Duncombe mausoleum; planning and the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
2014 Mausolus Summer
9th May 2015
Remembering William Butterfield; the grave of Samuel and Suzanne Beckett; monuments to Antarctic explorers; Gabriele d'Annunzio's mausoleum
2011 Mausolus Winter
8th May 2015
Edinburgh's Burial Grounds; Raikes mausoleum; Ralph Allen's mausoleum, Claverton; Bunhill Fields
2013 Mausolus Summer
8th May 2015
Outdoor tombs, the Pentillie Mausoleum and an update on the Hope Mausoleum appeal
2009 MMT News July
8th May 2015
Monuments and slavery - changes to the EH list; St Pancras Gardens
2010 MMT Newsletter May
8th May 2015
Norman Shaw's tomb; Wauchope mausoleum; Dartrey mausoleum
2010 Mausolus Winter
8th May 2015
The Burton mausoleum; Philipson mausoleum, Mary Watts memorial cross; Darnley mausoleum
2011 Mausolus Spring
8th May 2015
The Mausoleum in the Landscape; Hanham mausoleum; Lutyens memorials; Boswell mausoleum; Kilmorey mausoleum; the funeral of Landgrave Friedrich of Hesse-Kasselin 1884
2008 MMT News July
7th May 2015
The Boileau mausoleum and the Boileau family; obituary, Dr Thomas Cocke
2008 MMT News November
7th May 2015
Malplaquet House; the Lovelace Mausoleum
2009 MMT News March
7th May 2015
Dysart mausoleum; Darnley mausoleum; a modern family mausoleum in Cornwall
2003 MMT News November
6th May 2015
Restoring the Sacheverell Bateman mausoleum; the Wilson mausoleum, Warter; Keston Roman tombs
2004 MMT News April
6th May 2015
The origins of the Darnley mausoleum
2004 MMT News November
6th May 2015
The Hopper mausoleum; Newman Brothers Coffin Factory
2005 MMT News March
6th May 2015
The Eyre mortuary chapel, Bath; Birmingham cemeteries
2006 MMT News Spring
6th May 2015
The Knockbreda mausolea
2005 MMT News October
6th May 2015
Dulwich Picture Gallery and its mausoleum; Fitzpatrick mausoleum; sham mausolea; visits to the Sacheverell Bateman mausoleum and the Boileau mausoleum
2001 MMT News May
5th May 2015
Victorian literary attitudes to mausolea in cemeteries
2000 MMT News Sept
5th May 2015
Burial chambers; progress at the Wynn Ellis mausoleum
2002 MMT News Oct
5th May 2015
Kilmorey mausoleum
2003 MMT News March
5th May 2015
the Heathcote mausoleum; a funny thing happened on the way to the cemetery; Raikes mausoleum, E Riding of Yorkshire
2003 MMT News July
5th May 2015
The Hope mausoleum; a note on the Guise mausoleum; the Raikes mausoleum; the mausoleum at Halicarnassus; the Walker mausoleum, Rotherham
2013 Mausolus Winter
11th December 2013
The Larnach mausoleum in Dunedin, NZ; the Melesi mausoleum; the Yule mausoleum; and the North Mausoleum in Great Glemham, Suffolk
2012 Mausolus Summer
14th August 2012
The Guise mausoleum; Eksharad Cemetery, Sweden; the Lowndes mausoleum, Chesham; mausolea in Northern Ireland
2006 MMT News Winter
1st December 2010
Heathcote Mausoleum
2000 MMT News Feb
1st January 2010
Darnley mausoleum
Other articles of interest
MMT Trustees' Report 2018
29th May 2019
MMT Trustees' Report 2018
Byzantium in Berkshire
15th December 2016
Article on the Hannen mausoleum at Wargrave in Berkshire by Oliver Bradbury
A touch of South America in South Hams
15th December 2016
Article on the Harvey mausoleum, Harberton, Devon by Jo Cox, November 2006
The Hunloke mausoleum, Wingerworth, Derbyshire
15th December 2016
History and Architecture of the mausoleum, pub. All Saints Church, Wingerworth, 2003
Samuelson mausoleum, Hatchford Park, Surrey
15th December 2016
The Strange Story of the Samuelson mausoleum, by Joy Grant
The making of the Bowood Landscape
14th December 2016
The Shelburne mausoleum, most prominent feature of the park
The Byng Vault
14th December 2016
Notes on the Byng Vault at All Saints Church, Southill, Bedfordshire, by Roger Bowdler, January 1999.
The Folly and the Mausoleum
14th December 2016
The Freeman mausoleum at Fawley, Buckinghamshire, an article by Geoffrey Tyack
The Bruce, or Ailesbury, mausoleum..........
9th December 2016
the story in brief
Immortal Longings
28th September 2016
Article by John Goodall on the mausolea at Knockbreda
Mausolea in Northern Ireland
24th September 2016
Burton Restoration article
24th September 2016
Account of the restoration of the tomb of Sir Richard Burton in St Mary's RC Cemetery, Mortlake
Built in Remembrance
24th September 2016
Mausolea in Ulster by Professor James Stevens Curl
Post Reformation Mausolea in Suffolk
27th May 2014
Professor James Stevens Curl's account of the Royal Archaeological Institute's study weekend in Suffolk 16-18 May 2014
Discovery of Sir James Tillie's remains at Pentillie Castle
26th February 2013
Hope Springs Eternal
14th July 2010
In Country Life, by Hannah Parham; Hope mausoleum
Reminders of Mortality
30th April 2010
In Apollo, by Gavin Stamp; Hope & Burton mausolea
A small charity with a very big mission
30th June 2008
Roger Bowdler's article in Historic Churches 2008
Current Archaeology Article
1st March 2008
Chris Catling profiles some of the least known and most dedicated voluntary heritage societies
Rural Charity of the Year
19th November 1998
Country Life award to the MMT
Roger Bowdler's article for Churchscape
5th August 1998
A paper discussing the significance of mausolea, introducing the work of the MMT
Evicted from Eternity
15th January 1998
Country Life article by Michael Hall
The Decay of Dying
2nd June 1997
An article by Christopher Woodward for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Newsletter No. 61 Summer 1997
Mending Monuments
1st September 1995
An article by Michael Hall reprinted from Country Life
The Mausolea & Monuments Trust
5th January 1995
Roger Bowdler explains the reasons for founding the Trust.
Contemplating Paradise
5th January 1995
Restoration by the Soane Monuments Trusts of the tomb Soaane designed in 1784 for Miss Elizabeth Johnston
Yule Mausoleum
5th January 1995
Article appearing in Herts Advertiser 15 September 2016