MEMORIAL OF THE NIDD FERRY DISATER IN GROUNDS TO SOUTH OF NEWBY HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213191
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL OF THE NIDD FERRY DISATER IN GROUNDS TO SOUTH OF NEWBY HALL
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL OF THE NIDD FERRY DISATER IN GROUNDS TO SOUTH OF NEWBY HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213191
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL OF THE NIDD FERRY DISATER IN GROUNDS TO SOUTH OF NEWBY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL OF THE NIDD FERRY DISATER IN GROUNDS TO SOUTH OF NEWBY HALL

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:: MEMORIAL OF THE NIDD FERRY DISATER IN GROUNDS TO SOUTH OF NEWBY HALL

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newby with Mulwith
National Grid Reference:: SE3476867264

Details

The following amendments should be made to the entry for the Memorial of the Nidd Ferry Disaster in grounds to south of Newby Hall (Item 1/44):-

Lines 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the list description should be amended to read:- 'side of the ferry, panicked and tipped the boat over. Six men were drowned, includ- -ing Sir Charles Slingsby, the heir to the estates in Knaresborough and Scriven, and Edmund Robinson (both members of the family of Newby Hall), Christopher Warriner, Newby Hall gardener, and his son James. Clare and Robert Vyner and Captain Henry Vyner were saved. It was a dramatic event which had a considerable impact on the history of estates in the area. The memorial originally stood in woodland to east of the kitchen gardens.

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SE 36 NW 1/44

NEWBY WITH MULWITH NEWBY PARK Memorial of the Nidd Ferry Disaster in grounds to south of Newby Hall

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Memorial. c1869 possibly using earlier architectural remains. Ashlar and gritstone. Overall height approximately 3 metres. The square base has round-arched recess on each side. Clustered Corinthian columns above, strange grape decoration to inner columns. Ball and cushion finials to top. 4 mushroom-shaped finials flank the columns. The memorial has no obvious representation of the incident it is said to commemorate. On February 4th 1869 the York and Ainsty Hunt reached the banks of the River Ure which was swollen after heavy rain. Several members boarded the ferry to east of the kitchen garden but one of the horses became tangled in the chains on the side of the ferry, panicked and tipped the boat over. Six men were drowned, including Sir Charles Slingsby, the heir to the estates in Knaresborough and Scriven, Captain Henry Vyner and Edmund Robinson - members of the family of Newby Hall. Clare and Robert Vyner were saved. It was a dramatic event which had a considerable impact on the history of estates in the area. The memorial originally stood in woodland to east of the kitchen gardens.

Listing NGR: SE3476867264

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.