Sutherland Burial Place, Dunrobin Castle

The Sutherland Burial Place at Dunrobin Castle, probably designed around 1920 by Sir Robert Lorimer, incorporates an Italianate garden pavilion built between 1834 and 1842 by Sir Charles Barry. The pavilion originally formed part of a series designed for the gardens at Trentham, Staffordshire, for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, Marquis of Stafford.

The burial place is a spacious enclosure defined by a low balustrade of ashlar stone, with semi-circular stone bench seats integrated into the balustrade. The central feature is the Italianate pavilion, which is topped by a shallow pyramidal roof with an apex cross. A polished ashlar canopied arch forms the pavilion's centre, featuring engaged angle columns with Corinthian capitals connected to keystones by decorative swags. Several 20th-century Sutherland family tombs are also present. The site is impressive, situated overlooking the sea. Further information on the Trentham gardens can be found in John Cornforth's COUNTRY LIFE articles from January and February 1968.