Bazalgette Mausoleum

[2] The mausoleum is the final resting place of the noted Victorian engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and many members of his family.

It was built circa 1804 for John Anthony Rucker, a local merchant trader, businessman and slave-owner based at West Hill House, East Putney.

[8] Gibson was based in the City of London and is known for having rebuilt the now demolished St Peter le Poer in Broad Street,[9] Vintner’s Company almshouses on Mile End Road and Saddlers Hall in Cheapside.

[10][11] Gibson also built West Hill House, in East Putney, for John Anthony Rucker (now the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability).

[19] He bought property in South London including the West Hill estate and the Wandle Villa in the late eighteenth century.