Sundial and Gates Graythwaite Hall Gardens Newby Bridge

The gardens date from 1889, when Thomas Mawson of Windermere was commissioned to design six acres around Graythwaite Hall. The resulting garden, still much as he designed it, is a spring phenomenon with rhododendrons, azaleas and spring flowering shrubs. Arts and Crafts influences can be seen in Mawson’s designs for the rose garden, the Dutch garden, the yew hedges and the terraces.

 The formal gardens have sundials and handsome gates to the designs of Dan Gibson. The sundial was used on the covers of the third to fifth editions of Mawson's book 'The Art and Craft of Garden Making',