Mausoleum Mausoleum A Mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. The word derives from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Historically, mausolea were, and still may be, large and impressive constructions
Trafford Mausoleum, Wroxham Trafford Mausoleum, Wroxham The Trafford Mausoleum, Wroxham, Norfolk is a Victorian Gothic memorial to Sigismund Trafford Southwell, of Wroxham Hall. The mausoleum was designed by Anthony Salvin. It is a Grade II listed structure. The Traffords of Wroxham Hall (now demolished) had held land in the area since the Middle Ages. An ancestor, Sigismund Trafford, had been member of parliament for King's Lynn in 1689. Sigismund Trafford Southwell, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1818, died in 1827. His wife approached Anthony Salvin to design a mausoleum which was constructed c.1830. It was built in the churchyard of St Mary the