Description

SE 2768 LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY FOUNTAINS LANE ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS (east side, off)

9/37 Abbey Mill

GV I

Watermill, now stores and workshops. Mid C12, remodelled late C12 and again early C13; altered post 1539 and C19. Gritstone, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays, with lower 2-storey, 2-bay addition to north. East side: C12 round-arched doorway first floor left, later arched openings to ground floor. Paired lancet windows first and second floors. 4 stepped buttresses. Corniced ridge stack to right of bay 2. Rear (west side): 2 upper storeys above ground level. Far right: round chamfered arched doorway; windows as east side. Attached brick wheelhouse bay 4, C19 machinery intact. Wooden cover and sluice gate bay 2. Left return: external steps to narrow chamfered round-arched doorway first floor; paired window to right. 2 square-headed windows ground floor, and one in gable. Right return: square-headed doorway centre; blocked first-floor entrance. Interior: C19 and C20 flooring. The mill was fed by a leat from the River Skell near the west wall of the precinct which widened into a mill pond with a dam against the west wall of the building. 2 waterwheels were in use, serving 2 cornmills and later other processes. The north end, possibly housing waterwheels, was demolished after the dissolution of Fountains Abbey (qv) in 1539 and was replaced by the lower-roofed block. The mill continued in use until the early C20. A Scheduled Ancient Monument. R Gilyard-Beer, Fountains Abbey, 1977, p 75.

Listing NGR: SE2725868197

External Links

• Abbey Mill at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26268184

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)