Restoration
In 2001, Gravesham Council purchased the mausoleum and its surrounding woods from the liquidators with funding from Union Railways, who built the High Speed One railway nearby, as part of the environmental remediation programme for the new line. The Cobham Ashenbank Management Scheme,known as CAMS, was formed as a consortium comprising National Trust, English Heritage, Cobham Hall, Natural England, Kent County Council and Gravesend Council. CAMS led the restoration of the mausoleum and the parkland around it with the help of a £6M grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Fortunately, some original drawings exist and in 1946, James Wraight RIBA, photographed and made full measured drawings of the building, which facilitated restoration to its state before vandalism. But the intention of transfer to the National Trust has not been achieved. The restoration of the Mausoleum is part of a larger scheme to restore Cobham Park and its landscapes to close to those designed by Humphry Repton, and return Cobham Woods to a wood pasture managed environment. The architects for the restoration were Purcell Miller Tritton.
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