Kilmorey Mausoleum

Kilmorey Mausoleum
Entrance to the Kilmorey Mausoleum
General information
Type	Mausoleum
Architectural style	Egyptian Revival
Address	St Margarets Road
Town or city	St Margarets, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Country	England
Coordinates	51°27′40″N 0°19′22″W / 51.46112°N 0.32288°W / 51.46112; -0.32288Coordinates: 51°27′40″N 0°19′22″W / 51.46112°N 0.32288°W / 51.46112; -0.32288
Construction started	c. 1853
Owner	Richmond upon Thames Borough Council
Designations	Grade II*

The Kilmorey Mausoleum, in St Margarets in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is a Grade II* listedmausoleum in the style of an ancient Egyptian monument and has been described as a "fine example of an Egyptian-style mausoleum, with an unusually good interior". Designed by Henry Edward Kendall Jr. (1805–85) and built, at a cost of £30,000,in pink and grey granite with a bronze door, it was commissioned in the 1850s by the 2nd Earl of Kilmorey (1787–1880) and contains the bodies of the Earl and his mistress, Priscilla Anne Hoste (1823–54).

Priscilla died of heart disease on 21 October 1854, and she was buried in the mausoleum, with the inscription "Priscilla, the beloved of Francis Jack, Earl of Kilmorey".

When Kilmorey himself died in June 1880, aged 92, he was buried beside her in the mausoleum underneath a bas-relief in white marble showing the dying Priscilla on a couch surrounded by her lover and ten-year-old son Charles (b.1844). The bas-relief was carved in Rome by portrait sculptor Lawrence Macdonald.

Originally erected in Brompton Cemetery, the mausoleum was moved first to Woburn Park near Weybridge in about 1862, and from there to its present location in about 1868.

In 1936 the grounds of the mausoleum were passed on in perpetuity to Hounslow Borough Council on condition that access would be maintained. Following changes to the Hounslow/ Richmond local borough boundaries in 1994, the mausoleum became the responsibility of Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council.