How Hill Tower and Outbuildings, Also Called the Chapel of Saint Michael De Monte
HOW HILL TOWER AND OUTBUILDINGS, ALSO CALLED THE CHAPEL OF SAINT MICHAEL DE MONTE, HOW HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293874
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- How Hill Tower and Outbuildings, Also Called the Chapel of Saint Michael De Monte
- Statutory Address:
- HOW HILL TOWER AND OUTBUILDINGS, ALSO CALLED THE CHAPEL OF SAINT MICHAEL DE MONTE, HOW HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293874
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- How Hill Tower and Outbuildings, Also Called the Chapel of Saint Michael De Monte
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOW HILL TOWER AND OUTBUILDINGS, ALSO CALLED THE CHAPEL OF SAINT MICHAEL DE MONTE, HOW HILL ROAD
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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:
- HOW HILL TOWER AND OUTBUILDINGS, ALSO CALLED THE CHAPEL OF SAINT MICHAEL DE MONTE, HOW HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Markington with Wallerthwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 27600 67052
Details
SE 26 NE MARKINGTON WITH HOW HILL ROAD WALLERTHWAITE (west side)
5/66 How Hill Tower and outbuildings, also called the Chapel of Saint Michael de Monte
- II*
Former chapel, now outbuilding, with attached outbuildings, all disused. 1718 incorporating medieval and early C16 remains, outbuildings of later C18. Tower for John Aislabie of Studley Royal. Coursed squared gritstone and limestone, Westmorland slate roof; outbuildings of coursed rubble with gritstone quoins, surviving roofs on north side of stone slates. Square 2- storey tower with projecting stair bay on west side, with extensive remains of outbuildings against the north and east (downhill) sides. The ruined group is composed of a substantial 3-storey block with lean to additions (east) and a 2-storey and single-storey block which may have served as a stable (north). Tower: south face - round-arched doorway with imposts and keystone, now blocked in lower half, under stone plaque with 4 quatrefoils containing shields in relief. First-floor band, returned, with relief carving: 'SOL DEO HONOR MH ET GLORIA'. Hollow-chamfered, round-arched window above, tracery missing. Projecting modillioned eaves band. Stone pyramidal roof clad in slates and surmounted by a 3-dimensional cross. Rear (north side): round-arched window in stone architrave to ground-floor, round-arched window with 2 pointed light to first floor. Left return: attached bay containing stone staircase has rectangular window on west side, kneelers with gable coping and arched bell-cote-like finial. Right return: ground floor obscured by remain of C18 buildings. First floor has blocked round-arched window with 2 pointed lights. Interior: flooring has collapsed but fireplaces survive in the tower to ground-floor east side, and in the north-east corner on the first floor, with cast-iron basket grate in situ. The projecting bay contains a substantial stone staircase built against the south, west and north walls, and giving access to the upper floor of the tower. The site is a scheduled ancient monument. The hill with the village of Erlesholt (now deserted) was given by Robert de Sartis to Fountains Abbey and the chapel was erected c1200. It was repaired or rebuilt between 1494 and 1526 by Abbot Marmaduke Huby who built the tower at Fountains. After the Dissolution it was neglected until John Aislabie rebuilt the tower. The building may have been used as a folly or gaming house, as repairs were done to windows and furniture including gaming tables in 1737-38. The outbuildings are thought to have been added in the later C18 but when complete they must have given the appearance of a nave attached to the tower. Their siting on the downhill side of the tower rather than more conveniently on the flat hill top suggests that they may be part of John Aislabie's scheme and only later used as farm outbuildings. M Sykes, The Chapel of Saint Michael de Monte, c1984, single sheet.
Listing NGR: SE2760067052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sykes, M, The Chapel of Saint Michael de Monte, (1984)
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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