The Kitchen Gardens, at some distance from the mansion, are well arranged, very extensive (about seven acres), and extremely productive; and their pleasing effect is much heightened by the judicious introduction of richly arranged flower borders: the glass houses of all kinds are of great extent.
At a little distance across the park is Lowther Church, with the family Mausoleum in its churchyard. The Mausoleum, upon which the gifted poet, the Rev. James Dixon, wrote the following stanza—
“A grander, fairer spot of English ground
To rest in till the trump of doom shall blow
From the high heavens through land and sea below,
In all this ancient realm could not be found.
Sheer from beneath, the river’s amber flood,
Breaking in white waves ‘gainst the stony shores,
Round this green eminence for ever pours
The loud voice of its waters, through the wood
That clothes its banks, and crowns the airy hills
And verdant slopes of Lowther’s wide domain,
Swelling and falling with the grand refrain
Of Nature’s voice omnipotent. What heart but thrills
To these wild charms, lit by the vernal beams,
Grey wood, green lawn, and river’s dancing gleams?”——