Today we visit Liss Cemetery and church, on a freezing cold but dry day.
On our walk, we find a beautiful Mausoleum with an open door so we can peep inside. at least one coffin was visible.

Liss Church, Church Of Ireland.
Detached former Church of Ireland church, built c.1820, with three-bay nave, three-stage tower to south and vestry to north. Situated within its own grounds. The church is no longer in use. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and chimneystack over northern gable. Random coursed stone walls with tooled stone plinth course. String courses to tower with pinnacles and crenellations. Crenellations to parapet of vestry. Pointed-arched window openings to nave with Y-tracery and diamond-paned glazing bars. Diamond-shaped window openings with hoodmouldings to central stage of tower. Pointed-arched louvred openings to belfry with hoodmouldings. Square-headed window opening to vestry with tooled stone surround, hoodmoulding and diamond-paned windows. Pointed-segmental chancel window with Y-tracery. Pointed-arched door opening to tower with tooled stone surround, hoodmoulding, timber blind tracery panelled double doors and stone threshold. Pointed-arched door opening to vestry with timber battened door. Church set within graveyard with variety of stone grave markers. Enclosed private burial plot to west of church, bounded by random coursed stone wall with tooled coping and accessed though flat-arched portal opening with wrought-iron gate. The tower of church is flanked by sweeping wrought-iron railings set on a tooled stone plinth with gates, which bound graveyard to south.

The Castle style Mausoleum holds the remains of William Wellington Bailey. He was a Rubber Merchant and Company Director. Late of Plassey House, Limerick. He passed away at 114 Lower Bagott St, Dublin. He was aged 57. He died of Bright's disease. The funeral was to the family burial ground at Liss Cemetery.

The son of Daniel Bailey, a landowner. He lived in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Malay from 1875 to 1906 when he returned to Ireland. In Ceylon and Malay, he was engaged in coffee, cocoa and rubber plantations. He amassed a huge fortune from rubber. In 1906, he returned from Asia and purchased Plassey estate, where he owned and trained race horses. In 1908, his horses won 20 races, winning him over £1,865.

He was survived by his wife Blanche.

He left £368,582 in his will, the equivalent of £39 million in 2015.







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