ANN BOLEYN'S SEAT AT THE SURPRISE VIEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174017
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: ANN BOLEYN'S SEAT AT THE SURPRISE VIEW
Statutory Address:: ANN BOLEYN'S SEAT AT THE SURPRISE VIEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174017
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: ANN BOLEYN'S SEAT AT THE SURPRISE VIEW
Statutory Address 1:: ANN BOLEYN'S SEAT AT THE SURPRISE VIEW

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:: ANN BOLEYN'S SEAT AT THE SURPRISE VIEW

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 28291 68504

Details

SE 2868 LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY STUDLEY PARK ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS

9/87 Ann Boleyn's Seat at the Surprise View

GV II

Shelter. Probably before 1790, rebuilt C19 and restored C20. For William Aislabie. Wood. West front: 3 slender Gothick arches supported by quatrefoil columns; elaborate crenellated parapet. Single-pitch roof. Rear: narrow entrance, woodwork renewed, crenellated parapet. Left and right returns: solid, restored. Interior: concrete floor and plinths for columns. The structure was originally described as a 'sashed Gothic temple'. There was a seat at the Surprise View in 1790 and an arched shelter is shown in an engraving of 1828 (W T C Walker, personal communication). The name Ann Boleyn is associated with the site because a large headless statue was erected nearby in the C18. Probably the same statue (an armless as well as headless female in classical drapery and originally over 3 metres tall) is now in the sacristy at the base of Huby's Tower at Fountains Abbey.

Listing NGR: SE2829168504

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Legacy System number:: 331091
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.