Milton, Nottinghamshire

Milton
Nottinghamshire
The Milton Mausoleum
Location
Grid reference:	SK709728
Location:	53°14’52"N, -0°56’13"W
Data
Post town:	Newark
Postcode:	NG22
Local Government
Council:	Bassetlaw
Parliamentary constituency:	Newark

Milton is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, strung along a lane west of East Markham. It is beside the River Maun, just south-west of Sibthorpe and a short distance west of East Markham, from which it is separated by the tearing hurry of the A1. Just to the south-east is West Markham.

Mausoleum

Main article: Milton Mausoleum

The most impressive building in the hamlet is the Milton Mausoleum. It is a small church which was designed by the famed architect Robert Smirke and built in 1831–2 to house the tomb of the Duchess of Newcastle, who died in 1822. In 1896, Cornelius Brown wrote of the mausoleum:

Here is the vault of the noble family of Clinton; and herein the two last Dukes of Newcastle were interred. The church contains a monument to the fourth Duke, and opposite to it is a beautiful piece of statuary to the memory of his Duchess, by Westmacott. The inscription states that her Grace "gave birth to fourteen children, ten of whom lived to deplore the bereavement of an incomparable mother. Of the others, Anne Maria preceded her by a few months, and it is humbly hoped led the way to regions of eternal bliss. Two infants were carried by their parent to the grave."

Parishioners of East Markham often preferred to worship here, rather than the parish church at East Markham, until it fell into disrepair.

The mausoleum has been declared redundant as a church and is cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust. Although no longer needed for regular worship, it remains a consecrated building.

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