The Water Garden adjoins Fountains Abbey which I posted about yesterday. It’s a shortish walk from the Abbey to the Water Garden following the river; which looks canalised, a prelude to the artificiality of the Water Garden itself. (There is a paved path if you prefer not to walk on the grass.)

This is a stitch to show the trees and water along the way.

There are several neo-classical buildings in the Water Garden. This is the Temple of Fame.

This is the Rustic Bridge.

Again, a few more photos are on my flickr.

On the day we went to Ripon we had visited Fountains Abbey earlier.

Note the party of schoolchildren dressed as monks to the left here.

Ruins.

Internal view and a cloister.

Nice waterfall on the walk to Studley Royal Water Garden (see link above.)

The monks built out over the river which is bridged at at least four points (one of which held the toilet block – I wouldn’t have liked to live down river of that!)

A few more photos of Fountains Abbey and its grounds are on my flickr.

On our October trip south we visited Fountains Abbey the same day we later took in Ripon. Photos of the Abbey will follow.

In the same grounds as Fountains Abbey, Fountains Hall houses an exhibition dedicated to the life of Octavia Hill, founder of the National Trust.

On entry to the Hall and ascending the stairs you can turn back to view a memorial to the brother and sister Elizabeth Vyner and Charles de Gray Vyner, last scions of the family who owned the Hall in the 1940s. Both died on active service in World War 2.

This is the wording inscribed below the memorial.