Trent Park. The Duke’s Pyramid

‘The Duke’s Pyramid’, near the Cockfosters Road entrance, is one of the three memorials that Sir Philip Sassoon purchased in 1934 from Wrest Park, the former home of the de Grey family. The inscription reads, ‘To the memory of Henry Duke of Kent’. The memorial commemorates Henry Grey, a non-royal Duke of Kent, who died on 5th June 1740, after holding high offices of state between 1704 and 1720. The second inscription reads:
‘These gardens were begun in the year 1706 and at several times inlarged alterd and adornd to this year 1740’
This inscription refers to Wrest Park, the original home of the memorials.
- From: Concise history of Trent Park, by Alan Mitellas http://www.enfield.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/8248/consice_history_of_trent_country_park