A new sculpture and garden have been unveiled in the grounds of St German’s Cathedral in Peel.

The Knox-Pilates sculpture is situated in the 20th Century Knockaloe Garden and was designed by local artist Angela Patchett.

It was unveilved on Sunday by former president of Tynwald Clare Christian.

The sculpture represents Archibald Knox and Josef Pilates, two people associated with the Knockaloe Internment Camp.

The sculpture and garden are the latest developments in a multimillion-pound campaign to modernise and develop the historic building and its grounds.

Pilates was a German internee at Knockaloe, said to have perfected his famed fitness methods while at the camp, while Manx designer Knox controlled the censorship at the camp.

The sculpture is made of bronze, stainless steel, glass, granite and tile.

The design aims to incorporate a sense of movement associated with Pilates as well as the decorative work of Knox.

Four surrounding gardens are named The Gardens of the Four Corners of the World.

These four gardens represent internees coming from the four corners of the world and genocides which have taken place there.

Each garden represents a genocide told through the medium of a fable. The west is represented by the Jewish holocaust in which six million Jews died, the north by the Ukraine holodomor forced famine which killed seven million people between 1932 and 1933, the south by the 1994 Rwandan genocide which saw 800,000 people die and the east by the Nanjing massacre in China between 1937 and 1938 in which there were 300,000 deaths. The west garden was opened by Dr Richard Arning and Leonard Singer, representing the German and Jewish community. The north garden was opened by Peel resident Katrina Davison, who is from Ukraine.

Megan Walkom, an A level student who is going to Rwanda opened the south garden while Vicky Harrop, the first volunteer gardener, opened the east garden.