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This small monument on the northeast side of the Alder River commemorates James Thomson's poem of the same name, an excerpt of which is engraved on a brass plaque above the jet of water. Bevington says that "although it was erected by 1805, the detailed carving of the white marble, unique among the temples at Stowe, suggests that it is a relatively late construction, perhaps re-using a mantlepiece from the house."
This is not the only garden building to celebrate pastoral poetry, of which Thomson's poem is a prime example. In the northeast corner of the Grecian Valley, perhaps the least apparently contrived section of the garden, stands the Fane of Pastoral Poetry.
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The Seasons Fountain in the evening light
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