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The mausoleum of the Ray family in the Extra-Mural Cemetery. The building is square in plan and partly set into the hillside with a pointed-arched entrance to the west.

According to Brighton Cemeteries ‘it was built for a barrister of that name. But the oldest interment in it was that of Lucy Langford Ray in 1856. No male member of the Ray family was buried there until Robert Ray in 1871... The interior is fitted with shelves to take 42 coffins, but only 14 burials have taken place there.’

Title

Ray Family Mausoleum

Date

c.1850

Accession number

BN2_LS_S071

Acquisition method

commissioned by the Ray family

Work type

Tomb or mausoleum

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Access

time restrictions apply

Access note

October–March 9am–4pm, Sunday 11am–4pm, April–September 9am–5.30pm, Sunday 11am–5.30pm

Inscription description

set into the arch of the door frame, inset lead letters (taken from Psalm37): ‘Keep innocency and take heed unto the thing that is right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last.’

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