Edward Bliss`s Mausoleum Stock Photo

The mausoleum stands near the lake in the grounds of Brandon Hall, which Edward Bliss purchased in 1820 and rebuilt in the fashionable Grecian taste. The mausoleum, on the other hand, is designed in a ‘starved’ Gothic style and takes the form of a diminutive buttressed chapel with a little porch. It is built in yellow brick with flint panels and a steep slate roof, embellished with a stone cross finial, flanked by obelisks. Two low flat-roofed extensions on either side of the chapel housed the coffins. The plain wooden door is protected by an elaborate wrought-iron grille, bearing a continental baron’s coronet and the initial ‘B’