Robert Trollope

Robert Trollope was a 17th-century English architect, born in Yorkshire, who worked mainly in Northumberland and Durham.

His work includes:

• Eshott Hall, about 1660
• Capheaton Hall, 1667-8
• Cliffords Fort, North Shields, 1672
• Callaly Castle, 1676
• St Hilda's Church, South Shields, 1675
• Guildhall, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Netherwitton Hall, 1685

He was buried at St Mary's Church, Gateshead, Co Durham. He designed his own monument complete with statue and an inscription which is said to have read:

Here lies Robert Trollop
Who made yon stones roll up
When death took his soul up
His body filled this hole up

• 'A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1827) from British History Online