WEIR AT NORTH END OF THE CANAL, WITH PIERS, FISHING PAVILIONS AND BALUSTRADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1173821
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: WEIR AT NORTH END OF THE CANAL, WITH PIERS, FISHING PAVILIONS AND BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address:: WEIR AT NORTH END OF THE CANAL, WITH PIERS, FISHING PAVILIONS AND BALUSTRADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1173821
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: WEIR AT NORTH END OF THE CANAL, WITH PIERS, FISHING PAVILIONS AND BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address 1:: WEIR AT NORTH END OF THE CANAL, WITH PIERS, FISHING PAVILIONS AND BALUSTRADE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WEIR AT NORTH END OF THE CANAL, WITH PIERS, FISHING PAVILIONS AND BALUSTRADE

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:: SE 28025 69063

Details

SE 2769 LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY STUDLEY PARK ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS Weir at north end of the 9/68 Canal, with piers, fishing pavilions and balustrade 6.3.67 (formerly listed as Fishing Tabernacles)

GV II*

Weir or cascade, piers, fishing pavilions, gate piers to east and walling with balustrade to west. Begun 1716. By John Simpson, stone cutter for John Aislabie, and completed by Robert Doe in 1728. Gritstone and ashlar, with Westmorland slate roofs to pavilions. North face: cascade of 4 steps flanked by piers with bands of frosted rustication and ball finials. Each. flanking revetment wall has a stone mask, and water spout, with stone basin projecting beneath mask to right. Walls terminate with fishing pavilions built over double-arched sluices from the Canal (qv), which project as bastions into the lake with a Venetian window, moulded eaves cornice, pyramidal roof, ball finial and weather vane. To east: 3 piers (gates restored), approximately 2 metres high having moulded bases, deep cornices and flat caps. The revetment wall west of the west fishing pavilion by Robert Doe has 2 heavy bull-nose mouldings and is surmounted by a balustrade with vase- shaped balusters and square piers supporting a moulded coping with ball finials. South elevation: the fishing pavilions each have a 6-panel door in architrave with double keystone. Left and right returns of fishing pavilions: sash with glazing bars in eared architrave with cornice. Interior of fishing pavilions: west pavilion destroyed by-fire c1960; east pavilion has a projecting sill below the Venetian window, with dado and moulded skirting. The weir or cascade with the flanking bastions were amongst the first of the garden structures to be built. The Canal (qv) was begun in 1716 and this northern termination and major feature in the scheme was begun before the South Sea Bubble of 1720, after which John Aislabie retired from politics and devoted himself to the work at Studley Royal. The parapeted wall to west of the tabernacle replaced an earlier earthern embankment. The ball finials originally alternated with decorated and handled lead urns. 2 survive in store at time of resurvey. The heavy bull- nose moulding is similar to that on the Octagon Tower (qv) which was Gothicized in 1738. Undergoing restoration at time of resurvey. G Beard, Studley Royal, Country Life, 1961. W T C Walker, personal communication.

Listing NGR: SE2802569063

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Legacy System number:: 331072
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 9 March, (1961)
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.