Times of change at stately home...

Owner the Duke of Devonshire and artist Gary Breeze were yesterday looking over the latest outdoor artwork to be commissioned by Chatsworth House, a sundial sculpture named Timepiece. Its markings show the distance to ancient stone circles located across Derbyshire.

Mr Breeze yesterday supervised the installation of the custom-designed sculpture, which is made from stone quarried near Morley.

"The initial idea lay in the desire to draw people to a particular spot in the garden," Mr Breeze said. "Only from this focal point could one see a lovely view of the stable clock tower through a small gap in the trees and so a sculpture which brought people to that spot was called for.

"Perhaps it was the clock tower that inspired the idea that the sculpture should be a sundial, bringing two ways of understanding time, one ancient and one relatively modern, together to one space."