Canal Approximately 500 Metres Long, With the Drum Falls and Weir Inlet
CANAL APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES LONG, WITH THE DRUM FALLS AND WEIR INLET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173904
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Approximately 500 Metres Long, With the Drum Falls and Weir Inlet
- Statutory Address:
- CANAL APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES LONG, WITH THE DRUM FALLS AND WEIR INLET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1173904
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Approximately 500 Metres Long, With the Drum Falls and Weir Inlet
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANAL APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES LONG, WITH THE DRUM FALLS AND WEIR INLET
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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:
- CANAL APPROXIMATELY 500 METRES LONG, WITH THE DRUM FALLS AND WEIR INLET
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 27990 68929
Details
SE 2869 LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY STUDLEY PARK SE 2768 ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS SE 2868
9/72 Canal approximately 500 metres long, with the Drum Falls and weir inlet
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Canal between the Rustic Bridge (qv) and the Cascade (qv), with weir inlet at south end. Begun c1718 for John Aislabie. Gritstone and clay. Approximately 500 metres long and 10 metres wide, with a change in direction at the weir known as Drum Falls. Canal: stone lining and clay puddled base, the lining collapsed along most of its length. A shallow segmental arch on east side approximately 10 metres from the Rustic Bridge (qv) covers sluice outlet. Drum Falls: flanking walls and sluice rebuilt 1984 after the collapse of the wooden core to the dam. Although the excavation of the canal began in 1718 the canal bank was still being built in 1727-28 with surface stone from Galphay Moor. The south (inlet) end is framed by the Rustic Bridge (qv), originally the limit of the formal water garden, and at the north (outlet) end is the cascade of the weir (qv) into the lake. The canal was the axis of a long view from north of the lake, over Tent Hill and the Temple of Venus, to How Hill Tower, Markington (qv) - a distance of 1½ miles. The Drum Falls takes its name from the rhythm heard in the water emerging from the curved tunnel at the Rustic Bridge (qv) and dropping over the weir into the lower stretch. The rhythm varies with the water volume and can be seen as well as heard. W T C Walker, Studley Royal and Fountains Abbev Estate, 1976.
Listing NGR: SE2799068929
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331076
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Walker, W T C, Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey Estate, (1976)
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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