The column of the Temple of Poseidon is one of the surviving features in the Chatsworth House garden from the period of the sixth Duke of Devonshire .

Surmounted by an over life-sized bronze bust of the sixth Duke, the classical Greek column of four Doric marble drums was erected in 1840s.

[5] Some point before 1845 the publication of his handbook,[6] possibly in 1825 when his half brother returned from the Mediterranean voyage, the sixth Duke of Devonshire was gifted these column drums from his half brother Augustus Clifford, who at the time was the captain of HMS Euryalus and collected several antiquities in Greece between 1821 and 1825 during his military deployment in Mediterranean.

The column's 19th-century sandstone pedestal is three-face inscribed:Such was e’en then their look of calm repose, As wafted round them came the sound of fight, When the glad shout of conquering Athens rose, O’er the long track of Persians broken flight.

These fragments stood on Sunium's airy steep, They reared aloft Minerva's guardian's shrine, Beneath them rolled the blue Aegean deep, And the Greek pilot hailed them as divine.