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A tall, pinnacled Gothic tabernacle on a high square buttressed plinth. It has a gabled, and crocketted canopy with ornate Gothic detailing above which rises to tall facetted spire with further Gothic ornamentation, and below which stands a bust of Duchess Harriet. There are inscriptions around the base and the foundation stone of memorial was laid by Queen Victoria.

Title

Harriet Howard, Second Duchess of Sutherland (1806–1868)

Date

1872

Medium

bronze & polished ashlar

Accession number

KW10_WA_S041

Acquisition method

purchased by public subscription

Work type

Monument

Owner

The Sutherland family

Custodian

The Sutherland family

Work status

extant

Listing status

B (Scotland)

Listing date

18/03/71

Access

at all times

Inscription description

inscribed letters to the front of the base: HARRIET / DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND. / BORN / MDCCCVI. / DIED / MDCCCLXVIII.; inscribed letters to the side of the base: THIS MEMORIAL / WAS RAISED BY THE PEOPLE OF SUTHERLAND / TO WHOM THE MEMORY / OF / HARRIET DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND / IS DEAR.; inscribed letters to the rear of the base: THE / FOUNDATION STONE OF THIS MEMORIAL / WAS LAID BY / QUEEN VICTORIA / ON THE NINTH OF SEPTEMBER / MDCCCLXXII.; inscribed letters to the opposite side of the base: NEITHER FAILING SIGHT / NOR ALTERED HEALTH / WILL MAKE DEAR DUNROBIN LESS VIVID, / NOR CHANGE THE LOVE I BEAR TO SUTHERLAND. / LAST ADDRESS TO ROGART VOLTRS. OCT. 1864

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