Mull, Gruline, Macquarie's Mausoleum
Mausoleum (19th Century)
Site Name Mull, Gruline, Macquarie's Mausoleum
Classification Mausoleum (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Macquarrie's Mausolem; Old Gruline House
Canmore ID 22250
Site Number NM53NW 8
NGR NM 54941 39836
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22250
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Torosay
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
(NM 5494 3983) MacQuarie's Mausoleum, Gruline: This mausoleum, which stands about 0.6 km NW of Old Gruline House, is a plain gable-ended structure of sandstone ashlar having buttressed side-walls and a stone-slabbed roof. Two marble panels seal the entrance-doorways in the gable-walls, the one at the N end bearing a contemporary inscription which commemorates Major-General Lachlan MacQuarie of Jarvisfield, who died in 1824, and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Campbell of Airds, who died in 1835. The panel at the S end, which has recently been restored, contains an inscription recording MacQuarie's achievements as Governor of New South Wales.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1973.
