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This Mausoleum is locked but I got the key, locked the door and was inside alone. This unusual yet amazing building is the Mausoleum erected to house the remains of Robert Percy ffrench and his daughter Kathleen. Robert Percy ffrench was a descendant of a Monivea landlord family, he was born in 1832. He was secretary for the British Embassies in St. Petersburgh and Vienna. He married a rich Russian heiress and had one daughter, Kathleen. Robert converted to Catholicism and was a Knight of St. John of Jerusalem. When he died in 1896 his body was embalmed and his daughter had this mausoleum erected. It's been built in a clearing among the trees in the Monivea Wood and this secluded position adds a lot to its beauty and magnificence. It has a castle-like look, with a rectangular plan which measures metres of width and metres of length, with a square turret in its northeast corner. This turret contains a spiral staircase to the roof which has a crenellated top. To the south
