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Italianate garden, designed in 1907 by Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore. A 2 acre formal garden with rusticated ashlar pavilions, droved ashlar chamfered arrises, basket-arched openings, a corbel course and a timber-lined roof. There is a terrace with steps to a fan-shaped parterre and two pleached beech alleys between formal beds and box-edged parterres. By the southeast terrace, the northeast pavilion has a commemorative stone dated 1910, which records the names of all the local people involved in making the garden. There is a flat-coped rubble terrace wall with wide steps to the centre and northeast, flanked by small piers with urn finials. The fountain consists of semicircular-coped ashlar boundaries, a blue mosaic stone basin to a carved fountain with a square-plan base. A pulvinated plinth gives way to a pulvinated frieze with a lion-head spout to each face, with a moulded cornice below the statue of putto with a dolphin over the mask spout. Decorative wrought-iron gates are to the northeast. In 1980 a wrought-iron gate was designed for the Queen Mother's 80th birthday and made up by George Sturrock, a local blacksmith. The large fan-shaped central parterre was originally planted up in different colours to represent a rainbow.
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NO34NE0126 - GLAMIS CASTLE ITALIAN GARDEN