Vaynol Mausoleum - Bangor, North Wales - May 2023

[MK83]

History - This Victorian mausoleum was built in the 1870s for the Assheton-Smith family, which owned the Vaynol estate and the Dinorwig slate quarry. Thomas Assheton-Smith, who had developed the slate quarries, was buried in 1858 in Hampshire, where the family had another home, but later members of the family were buried here. They included Captain Robert George Duff, whose body was brought here from the Isle of Wight in 1890. The mausoleum sits in woodland in the grounds of the Vaynol estate, the woodland is now owned by the National Trust.

Explore - We had a mooch round this place while we were on a weekend away nearby. It's set in some nice woodland and as you approach it looks very atmospheric and gothic. The interior and the crypt are very cool and all in all it's well worth having a look.

Thanks for looking.

 

[dansgas1000]

Great pics and nice underground shots too. It's a nice surprise this place isn't it! And something a little different to your usual churchy-style stuff.

 

[MK83]

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Great pics and nice underground shots too. It's a nice surprise this place isn't it! And something a little different to your usual churchy-style stuff.

Thank you, yes it was a nice little explore, it's a shame it's been graffitied but otherwise a lovely place.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Nicely taken. I said it last post its such a shame someone has sprayed crap graff all round in there.
Just cant figure the mentality, "what shall I do today?" I know ill trudge to the middle of nowhere with my pink spray can & deface someone's resting place, with some "graffiti" which Im crap at anyway!
Takes a very strange sort if u ask me

 

[Prof Hugh Janus]

I dont have an ounce of religion in me but what do those idiots get out of spraying grafitti in that place.

 

[MK83]

Nicely taken. I said it last post its such a shame someone has sprayed crap graff all round in there.
Just cant figure the mentality, "what shall I do today?" I know ill trudge to the middle of nowhere with my pink spray can & deface someone's resting place, with some "graffiti" which Im crap at anyway!

Totally agree, absolutely mindless and unnecessary!

 

[MK83]

I dont have an ounce of religion in me but what do those idiots get out of spraying grafitti in that place.

Mindless idiots.