Italian Garden, Glamis Castle

The Italian Garden at Glamis Castle, designed by Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore, in 1907, is a 2-acre formal garden featuring rusticated ashlar pavilions. These pavilions have droved ashlar chamfered arrises and basket-arched openings, along with a corbel course and timber-lined roofs. The garden includes a terrace with steps leading to a fan-shaped parterre, and there are two pleached beech alleys situated between formal beds and box-edged parterres.

On the southeast terrace, there is a stone seat flanked by pinnacles at the center, with square-plan pavilions on either side. Each pavilion has a pedestrian entrance to the northeast and southwest, and a window opening to the southeast. They feature a corbelled cornice and a pyramidal roof made of Angus stone slate topped with a decorative stone finial. The northeast pavilion has a commemorative stone dated 1910. The flat-coped rubble terrace wall includes wide steps at the center and northeast, flanked by small piers with urn finials.

The garden also features a fountain with semicircular-coped ashlar boundaries and a blue mosaic stone basin. The carved fountain has a square-plan base and a pulvinated plinth that transitions to a pulvinated frieze with lion-head spouts on each face, and a moulded cornice supporting a statue of a putto with a dolphin above a mask spout.

Additionally, there is a decorative wrought-iron gate to the northeast.