Robin Hood's Well
ROBIN HOOD'S WELL, FOUNTAINS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149812
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Robin Hood's Well
- Statutory Address:
- ROBIN HOOD'S WELL, FOUNTAINS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149812
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Robin Hood's Well
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROBIN HOOD'S WELL, FOUNTAINS LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROBIN HOOD'S WELL, FOUNTAINS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2767868292
Details
SE 2768
9/40
LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS
FOUNTAINS LANE
(east side, off)
Robin Hood's Well
GV
II
Cover to spring. Probably late C18 or early C19 reusing stone from
Fountains Abbey. Coursed squared gritstone. Round chamfered arch
approximately 2 metres high under hood-mould with spiral stops, and short
flanking walls protect a spring in a rock-cut recess. The water ran over a
solid stone sill and into a grooved slab with a drain outlet. The water
level is now below the sill. The stonework is similar to that in the C12
doorways of the abbey, but W H St John Hope did not show the well in his
plan of the Abbey precinct (1900). The well is close to the probable
position of a folly built by William Aislabie at the eastern limit of the
abbey buildings after his purchase of them in 1768 (W T C Walker, personal
communication). It is probable that the covering was built from medieval
stones, the carved stops added, and the spring used as a place of
refreshment by visitors from Studley Royal House. The association with
Robin Hood is probably a C19 romance. W H St John Hope, Fountains Abbey,
Yorkshire, 1900, pl.
Listing NGR: SE2767868292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331042
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hope, WH, Fountains Abbey Yorkshire, (1900), 1
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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