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Bolton Abbey (village)
Bolton Abbey is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, 22 miles (35 km) north-west of Leeds. The village lies in Wharfedale, near the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and just north of the border with West Yorkshire. The village takes its name from the monastery now generally known as Bolton Priory, and is adjacent to the Bolton Abbey Estate, which includes the priory ruins and extends beyond the parish. The church of Bolton Priory is now the parish church of Bolton Abbey. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Craven, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. Bolton Abbey railway station lies 0.6 miles (1 km) south west of the village, just outside the parish boundary. The parish had a population of 111 in the 2011 census.
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The Tithe Barn, Bolton Abbey
The Tithe Barn is a historic building in the village of Bolton Abbey, in North Yorkshire in England.
The building was probably constructed in the 16th century, as the tithe barn of Bolton Priory. It was Grade II* listed in 1954. In 2019, it was converted into a wedding venue by the Cripps Barn Group, the work including a new bat house for the Natterer and Pipistrelle bats which nested in the barn. The conversion won a Regional Conservation Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Historic England describe the building as "a very unusual survival in the north of England".
The single-storey building is built of stone, with a stone slate roof. It is ten bays long. On the front are two double doors with segmental arches in half-dormers, and there are other later openings. The interior is aisled, with nine king-post frames. The fifth bay has a threshing floor.
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Old Rectory, Bolton Abbey
The Old Rectory is a historic building in Bolton Abbey, a village in North Yorkshire, England.
The building was originally constructed in the 15th century, as the infirmary of Bolton Priory. In 1700, it was rebuilt as the Boyle School, a boy's grammar school endowed by Robert Boyle. The building later became a rectory, and then in the late 20th century became a private house. It has been Grade II* listed since 1954.
The house is built of stone, with quoins, and a stone slate roof with stone copings and shaped kneelers. It has two storeys and seven bays, with a single-storey two-bay block at right angles connected by a wall. In the centre is a full-height gabled porch containing a doorway with a rusticated surround and voussoirs, and a semicircular hood mould, above which is a four-light window and a carved tablet with a triangular hood mould. In the ground floor are cross windows with sashes, and the upper floor contains double-chamfered mullioned windows. At the rear is a six-light window with a round head and cusped lights. In the rear block is a doorway with a four-centred arched lintel.
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Bolton Abbey Hall
Bolton Abbey Hall is a historic building in Bolton Abbey, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The building was originally the gatehouse of Bolton Priory. It was built in the 14th century, and was converted into a hunting lodge in 1652. It was owned by the Duke of Devonshire from 1748, who typically spent August at the property, where they sometimes entertained royalty. In the 1843 and 1844, it was extended and altered by Joseph Paxton. In 2022, it was made available for private hire, at a cost of around £25,000 for three nights. It was Grade II* listed in 1954.
The building is constructed of stone, with a stone slate roof and embattled parapets. The gatehouse range has three storeys, and a single bay, to the south is a range with two storeys and three bays, to the north is a range of two storeys and four bays, with a three-storey bay at the end. The gateway has diagonal buttresses, and contains a pointed arch infilled with pointed-arched window, above which is a hood mould and mullioned and transomed windows, and it is flanked by embattled turrets. Elsewhere, the windows are mullioned, some with transoms and some with hood moulds, and there are further embattled turrets. Inside, the gatehouse is divided into two by a cross-wall, with only a small connecting passage. There is a spiral staircase, and a tunnel vaulted roof. There is a large 16th century fireplace in the former west entrance, while the east entrance has a doorway from about 1370, which may have been relocated from the priory's chapter house.
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Bolton Abbey
Bolton Abbey Estate in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, England, takes its name from a 12th-century Augustinian monastery of canons regular, now known as Bolton Priory. The priory, which was closed in the 1539 Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by King Henry VIII, is in the Yorkshire Dales, which lies next to the village of Bolton Abbey.
The estate is open to visitors, and includes many miles of all-weather walking routes. The Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway terminates at Bolton Abbey station one and a half miles/2.5 km from Bolton Priory.