An Early English Gothic Revival chapel built of Cornish granite with a stone slab roof. The vaulted interior can be seen through the double-arched entrance, which is similar in form to a traceried window, but closed by shoulder-height railings. If there is an inscription on the large stone slab in the floor it is now obscured, but the two stone panels propped against the wall can be seen to commemorate Pendarves and his wife.

Architect

George Wightwick

Listing

Grade II (England and Wales)

Year Built

1842

Style

Gothic Revival

History

The only two bodies interred in this mausoleum are those of Edward William Wynne Pendarves (d.1853) and his wife Tryphena (d.1878) who lived at the now demolished Pendarves House. Edward Pendarves was an MP for Cornwall between 1826 and 1850. In the 1840s he employed the architect George Wightwick to design and build a church at the edge of the park to serve the new village of Treslothan. The style of the mausoleum is so similar to that of the church that it was almost certainly designed by the same architect. There are monuments to other members of the family in the south aisle of the church, and a tombstone in the churchyard commemorates William Cole-Pendarves (d.1929), who inherited the Pendarves estate from Edward Pendarves, his great uncle.

Condition

Poor. There is foliage close to the walls and elder sucklings are sprouting from the stone slab roof. Some of the coping stones have gone and the stone from the apex of the front gable is lying on the ground. All the stonework is heavily lichened (2002).

Sources

BoE: Cornwall (1970), 228;

Shell Guide: Cornwall (1964), 117-8;

C Webster and J Elliott, eds, A Church As It Should Be (2000) 248-9;

Church Handbook.

http://www.mmtrust.uk/mausolea/view/38/Pendarves_Mausoleum