Weir At North End Of The Canal, With Piers, Fishing Pavilions And Balustrade

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