The Rothschild Mausoleum is a mausoleum

Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...

 in the Jewish Cemetery at West Ham, England.

Architecture

The circular, domed, mausoleum was built in 1866 by Ferdinand James von Rothschild

Ferdinand James von Rothschild

Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild was an English art collector, and a member of the prominent Rothschild family of bankers...

 for his late wife Evelina de Rothschild

Evelina de Rothschild

Evelina Gertrude de Rothschild was an English socialite and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England.-Biography:...

 who died in childbed at age 27. The architect was Matthew Digby Wyatt

Matthew Digby Wyatt

Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge.-Life:...

. It is fashioned of marble in Renaissance revival style. Nikolaus Pevsner

Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture...

 notes the "dome of Eighteenth-century detail on attached Corinthian

Corinthian order

The Corinthian order is one of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric and Ionic. When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon, the Tuscan order and the Composite order...

columns" and praises the ironwork and stone carving, calling it worthy of "the attention of the student of mid-Victorian detail."

Anti-Semitic attack

In 2005 in what the police described as "a despicable racist attack" by anti-Semitic vandals, the doors of the mausoleum were pounded with heavy iron bars until they were bashed in, then they were torn from the building.