The entrance to the crypt is through the middle of the three arches facing east as was the custom. The Duke, a specialist buyer of artefacts for the British Museum was an expert in Egyptian culture and much of the design of his Mausoleum incorporates Egyptian ideas or themes. The three entrances to a tomb, two being false, being one of them. Above each arch are beautifully carved heads. The Carvings above the Crypt Gates 1.
Life wears a garland of fruit and flowers and the face is lined with the cares and worries of life.
The clock hands point to noon. The mid point of existence. Death is crowned with poppy heads, representing everlasting sleep, and the finger is over the lips for silence. The eyes are closed in the sleep that knows no waking Immortality presents as a great contrast to the other two. The face is beautiful and the head is crowned with lilies and circles with a serpent with its tail in its mouth.