page_title: Jill Allibone
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Jill Allibone / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: All Saints Church, Whitstable, Kent
context_page_description: Jill Spencer Allibone was an English architectural historian and the founder of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust. She wrote studies of Anthony Salvin and George Devey, and was a justice of the peace for over 20 years.
context_section_description: After the birth of three daughters, Allibone returned to the Courtauld to complete a PhD on the Gothic architect Anthony Salvin, which was published in 1987. Her supervisor was Nikolaus Pevsner, the first chairman of the Victorian Society, with which Allibone became closely involved. Her study of George Devey, known for his Kentish works, was published in 1991. She catalogued his drawings in the British Architectural Library. In 1996 she contributed essays to The Inns of Court (Black Dog Publishing, 2001).
  While visiting her grandmother's grave at All Saints Church in Whitstable, Kent, Allibone chanced upon a mausoleum designed by Charles Barry junior in 1875, for Wynne Ellis, a wealthy haberdasher and donor to the National Gallery. Seeing that the tomb was decaying, Allibone tracked down the owners and applied to have the site listed with English Heritage. It is now a grade II listed monument. This kindled Allibone's interest in funery monuments and in 1997, she founded the Mausolea and Monuments Trust, which is able to take over monuments in order to maintain and protect them.
  Allibone was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
caption: All Saints Church, Whitstable.
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