Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 562634
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562634
Built in the 1820s by James Gillespie Graham, the mausoleum is a rectangular building designed to resemble a Classical temple. The whole building is faced with ashlar. Pilasters flank the doorway into the mausoleum. Although the interior has been vandalised, it once had a black and white marble floor, with plaques set into the wall commemorating several members of the Douglas-Scott family. Plans show that the family considered adding statues and altering the building in the 1850s, though these ideas were never put into practice.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
