Not as big as Gaza maybe, but the huge sandstone pyramid in Brightling, Sussex does dominate the tiny village of Brightling. Eccentric and also enormous local squire John 'Hippopotamus' Fuller built his own mausoleum in the churchyard next to his mansion in true pharaoh style... preparing for his burial 24 years before he died in 1834.
Some locals believed 'Mad Jack' was buried as if dressed for dinner, wearing a top hat holding a bottle of claret. Another rumour is that the wealthy landowner advertised for a hermit to live in the pyramid while he was still alive. The successful applicant would have to refrain from cutting their hair, wash or speak to anyone for a year at the end of which Fuller would have "made him a gentleman for life". Evidently there were no takers. Today visitors can just peer through an iron grille across the entrance.
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