Italian Garden, Glamis Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 September 1998. Garden.
Italian Garden, Glamis Castle
- WRENN ID
- muffled-wall-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1998
- Type
- Garden
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore, 1907. 2 acre formal garden with rusticated ashlar pavilions with droved ashlar chamfered arrises and basket-arched openings, corbel course and timber-lined roof. Terrace with steps to fan-shaped parterre. 2 pleached beech alleys between formal beds and box-edged parterres.
SE TERRACE: stone seat with flanking pinnacles to centre, square-plan pavilions to outer right and left, each with pedestrian entrance to NE and SW, and window opening to SE; corbelled cornice and Angus stone slate to pyramidal roof with decorative stone finial. NE pavilion with commemorative stone dated 1910 (see Notes). Flat-coped rubble terrace wall with wide steps to centre and NE flanked by small piers with urn finials.
FOUNTAIN: semicircular-coped ashlar boundaries and blue mosaic stone basin to carved fountain with square-plan base, pulvinated plinth giving way to pulvinated frieze with lion-head spout to each face, moulded cornice below statue of putto with dolphin over mask spout.
GATES: decorative wrought-iron gate to NE.
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