Yorkshire: The North RidingThe North Riding extends from the fells on the Westmorland border to the highest cliffs in England, facing the North Sea. In an area of scattered settlements, Richmond is one of the best market towns in England, as Whitby is one of the best fishing towns. There are the remains of unusually complete and beautiful work at Rievaulx, complemented by fine eighteenth-century landscaping. The North Riding also saw Vanbrugh's astonishing first essay into architecture at Castle Howard, and there are many fine classical houses in a distinctively northern style. Industry has made its mark along the estuary of the Tees, where the Middlesbrough transporter bridge is a unique working survival of early twentieth-century engineering. |
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Abbey aisle angle apse arcade architecture ashlar balusters bell-openings bellcote block brick BRIDGE building built buttresses carved Castle Howard centre chamfered chancel chancel arch chapel chimneypiece church Cistercian clerestory corner Coxwold cross decoration ditch doorway E window early C18 Effigy entrance façade five bays FONT frieze front gable Georgian Gothic ground floor HALL Hutton inscription inside Jacobean John lancet windows late C17 later London masonry medieval middle Middlesbrough MONUMENTS motif moulding mullioned windows nave Nave and chancel Norman North Riding octagonal original panels Paten pediment Perp pilasters PLATE porch probably PULPIT range recessed ribs Rievaulx roof round piers rustication scalloped capitals Scarborough screen shafts side square ST MARY STAINED GLASS staircase stone storeys street style three-bay tower tracery transept transomed tunnel-vault turret Tuscan columns vault Venetian window Victorian village wall Whitby wings Yarm York
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