Commissioned after the death of Sigismund Trafford Southwell in 1827, the mausoleum was designed by Anthony Salvin in Gothic Revival style.

[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.