Lytton Mausoleum

The Lytton Mausoleum is a family mausoleum in Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire, England. It was commissioned by Elizabeth Barbara Lytton and built in 1817.

General information
The mausoleum in 2007

Architectural style	Neoclassical
Country	England
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	Lytton Mausoleum in Knebworth Park, including railings
Designated	1968
Reference no.	1174579[1]


Client	Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton
Technical details
Structural system	stone
Design and construction
Architect	John Buonarotti Papworth

The mausoleum is set in parkland at a distance from the Church of St Mary and St Thomas, a Grade I listed building which houses earlier monuments to the Lytton family.

Inside are a number of coffins.[2] Among the members of the family buried in the mausoleum is Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton (1869-1923). She joined the suffragette movement,[3] and, as her epitaph states “sacrificed her health and talents in helping to bring victory to this cause”.[4]

Architecture and conservation

The architect of the octagonal, stone building was John Buonarotti Papworth. His design is neoclassical. The roof supports a sarcophagus with shell acroteria.[1] [5]

The building and the railings which enclose it were Grade II listed in the 1968.[1]

References

"Lytton Mausoleum in Knebworth Park, including railings". Historic England.
"Tragic story of Victorian novelist's distraught daughter". Telegraph. March 2017.
"An aristocratic freedom fighter". Hertfordshire Life (www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk). November 2014. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
"Lytton Mausoleum". Mausolea and Monuments Trust.
"Design for a sarcophagus". Retrieved 2019-03-14.

Listed buildings in Hertfordshire

Grade I

Broxbourne	Eleanor Cross Wormleybury
Dacorum	130–136 Piccotts End Ashridge Business School Beechwood Park Berkhamsted School Old Building St Mary's Church, Hemel Hempstead
East Hertfordshire	Aston Bury Manor Balls Park Benington Castle (remains) Hertford Castle Gatehouse Hunsdon House Rye House Gatehouse Scott's Grotto Shire Hall, Hertford St James' Church, Stanstead Abbotts St Leonard's Church, Bengeo St Mary's Church, Ware St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Hormead Waytemore Castle (remains) Woodhall Park (Heath Mount School)
Hertsmere	Tyttenhanger House
North Hertfordshire	Hitchin Priory Holy Trinity Church, Weston St John the Baptist, Royston St Katharine's Church, Ickleford St Mary's Church, Ashwell St Mary's Church, Baldock St Mary's Church, Hitchin St Mary and St Thomas's Church, Knebworth Royston Cave
St Albans	Clock Tower Old Gorhambury House (remains) Rothamsted Manor St Albans Cathedral St Helen's Church, Wheathampstead St Mary's Church, Redbourn St Michael's Church, St Albans Verulamium
Stevenage	Rooks Nest House St Nicholas' Church
Three Rivers	Moor Park
Watford	Holy Rood Church, Watford St Mary's Church, Watford
Welwyn Hatfield	Brocket Hall Hatfield House/Old Palace New St Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence

Grade II*

Broxbourne	Rawdon House Theobalds House
Dacorum	173 High Street, Berkhamsted Ashlyns Hall Bridgewater Monument The Bury, Hemel Hempstead Cell Park Dean Incent's House Gaddesden Place Golden Parsonage The Old Bell, Hemel Hempstead St Peter's Church, Great Berkhamstead Tring Park Mansion
East Hertfordshire	All Nations Christian College All Saints' Church, Hertford Almshouses, Buntingford Bayfordbury Chapel at St Edmund's College, Ware County Hall Cromer Windmill Fanhams Hall Goldings Haileybury and Imperial Service College Hare Street House Hanbury Manor Marden Hill House Much Hadham Palace Pishiobury Park Mansion St Andrew's Church, Buckland Stansted Hall Yeomanry House, Hertford Youngsbury Stable Block
Hertsmere	Aldenham House Dyrham Park lodges and arched gateway Hilfield Castle Knightsland Farm House Lululaund Salisbury Hall Wrotham Park
North Hertfordshire	All Saints Church, Radwell All Saints Church, Willian The Cloisters, Letchworth St Nicholas' Church, Hinxworth Hinxworth Place Homewood, Knebworth Knebworth House Princess Helena College Spirella Building St Margaret of Antioch's Church, Bygrave St Martin's Church, Knebworth St Mary Magdalene's Church, Caldecote St Paul's Walden Bury St Vincent's Church, Newnham
St Albans	All Saints Pastoral Centre St Albans Town Hall New Gorhambury House Redbournbury Mill St Leonard's Church, Sandridge St Nicholas Church, Harpenden St Peter's Church, St Albans St Stephen's Church, St Albans Westwick Cottage
Three Rivers	Hunton Park Langleybury Oxhey Chapel Redheath
Watford	The Grove The Mrs Elizabeth Fuller Free School building
Welwyn Hatfield	Ayot House Digswell Viaduct Mill Green Museum and Mill Old St Lawrence Church, Ayot St Lawrence Shaw's Corner Templewood Primary School
Other boroughs	Stevenage

Grade II

Broxbourne	Broxbourne railway station Cheshunt Great House (remains)
Dacorum	Ashlyns School Goldfield Mill The Green Dragon, Flaunden Inns of Court War Memorial The Mansion, Berkhamsted Pendley Manor Rex Cinema Rossway Shendish Manor Stocks House St John's Church, Boxmoor
East Hertfordshire	All Saints' Church, Hockerill Benson Memorial Church Brent Pelham Windmill Buntingford Manor House Button Snap Christ Church, Ware Hertford Museum Tooke House Hopper's Hall The Horns, Bull's Green Little Munden Primary School Panshanger orangery, conservatory and stables Red House, Buntingford Rowneybury Cottage St John's Church, Letty Green The Tilbury, Datchworth The White Horse, Burnham Green The White Horse, Hertford
Hertsmere	Bhaktivedanta Manor The Chequers, Potters Bar Duke of York, Potters Bar Dyrham Park Country Club The Green Man, Potters Bar Ladbrooke School The Lion, Potters Bar Oakmere House Potters Bar War Memorial Shenley Hall Shenley Lodge Wall Hall The White Hart, South Mimms The White Horse, Potters Bar Wyllyotts Manor
North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Bury Ashwell War Memorial Breachwood Green Mill British Schools Museum Howgills Lannock Mill, Weston Letchworth Garden City railway station Lytton Mausoleum Minsden Chapel Putteridge Bury St George's Church, Letchworth St Nicholas' Church, Norton St Mary's Church, Letchworth Stagenhoe
St Albans	The Blue Anchor The Boot Childwickbury Manor The Cock Colney Heath Mill Fleur de Lys Hare and Hounds The Lower Red Lion The Old Kings Arms Ye Olde Fighting Cocks The Queen's Head, Sandridge Rose and Crown The Six Bells St Albans School Sopwell House Sopwell Nunnery (ruins) Verulam House The White Lion
Stevenage	Barclay Academy The Thomas Alleyne Academy Trigg's Barn/37 High Street, Stevenage
Three Rivers	Croxley Green Windmill
Watford	High Elms Manor The Old Station House St John's Church, Watford Watford Grammar School for Boys Watford Palace Theatre Watford Town Hall
Welwyn Hatfield	The Beehive, Welwyn Garden City The Brocket Arms Digswell House The Eight Bells, Hatfield Hope and Anchor, Welham Green The Horse and Groom, Hatfield The Green Man, Hatfield The Red Lion, Hatfield Statue of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Tolmers Park The Wrestlers, Hatfield

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