Trafford Mausoleum, Wroxham

The building has been used to bury members of the Trafford family.^[1] The Traffords of Wroxham Hall (now demolished) held land in the area from the Middle Ages.^[2]

Sigismund Trafford Southwell, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1818, died in 1827. His wife Margaret approached Anthony Salvin to design a mausoleum which was constructed c.1830.^[3] It was built in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Wroxham.^[4] Salvin exhibited the design at the Royal Academy in 1830.^[4] The style is Early English Gothic,^[4] described in the Norfolk 1: Norwich and the North-East volume of Pevsner as a; "correct, rather cold later 13th century style".^[5] The mausoleum is a Grade II listed structure.^[4]

• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Wilson, Bill (2002). Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings Of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09607-0.