Inside the Mausoleum

Outside the mausoleum takes the form of a stone pyramid based on the tomb of Caius Cestius in Rome, its height and breadth being of equal length. Inside there is a central domed space with eight radiating barrel-vaulted alcoves. The three alcoves facing the entrance contain the marble sarcophagi of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1728-93) and his two wives. The burial chambers are thought to be concealed within the walls. The floor is paved with marble slabs. Built following the earl's death by his second daughter, Lady Caroline Harbord (later Lady Suffield) to whom he had left the estate at Blickling. The mausoleum contains the tombs of the Earl, his first wife Mary Anne (d.1769) and his second wife Caroline (d.1817).

[Penelope Ann]

Great feeling of opulence and age