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Gilling Abbey was a medieval Anglo-Saxon monastery established in Yorkshire, England. It was founded at Gilling in what is currently North Yorkshire [1] by Queen Eanflæd, the wife of King Oswiu of Northumbria, who persuaded her husband to found it at the site where Oswiu had killed a rival and kinsman, King Oswine of Deira. [2]
Gilling Castle is a Grade I listed country house near Gilling East, North Yorkshire, England (grid reference SE611768). History. The castle was originally the home of the Etton family, who appeared there at the end of the 12th century.
Nov 28, 2021 · Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire — part of the Ampleforth Abbey Trust — is a medieval castle that underwent a Baroque conversion before having many notable 20th-century fittings. In the first of two articles on the castle John Goodall describes what happened.
Gilling Castle is a grade I listed building near the village of Gilling East, in the Howardian Hills. It is situated 5 miles to the north of Helmsley Castle and 7 miles south-west of Crayke Castle .
- Location, Area, Boundaries, Landform and Setting
- Entrances and Approaches
- Principal Building
- Gardens and Pleasure Grounds
- Park
Gilling Castlelies immediately west and south of the village of Gilling East in a rural and agricultural area. The c 420 ha site is on high land which falls to the south and west. The boundaries are largely fenced with a lane between the village and Redcar House forming the northern boundary and fences dividing park and woodland from agricultural l...
The principal entrance is from Main Street (B1363) in the village where there are stone gate piers (early C18, listed grade II) surmounted by carved lions from which a drive runs west through woodland, shown as an avenue on the 1856 OS map, to the north side of the Castle. On the south side of the site there is an entrance with a lodge called High ...
Gilling Castle (listed grade I) is a C14 tower house with late C16 alterations which was extensively remodelled, with the creation of a new west front, in the early C18. The architect of the C18 work is unknown, though William Wakefield and William Thorntonof York have been suggested as possibilities (see for example Pevsner 1966). The building con...
The Castle is set on a grassed platform with parapet wallsaround all sides but the west. On the west side there is a forecourt between the projecting north and south wings, otherwise grassland runs up to the west front. Immediately south of the south-west corner of the Castle there is a grassed platform which projects to the south and is supported ...
The park lies to the south and west of the Castle. To the south the land falls before rising again to Temple Hill which is planted on its north flank with woodland called The Rookery. A building shown on the hill on the 1771 county map could be an ornamental temple. The area between the Castle gardens and The Rookery is in use as a golf course (199...
Dec 5, 2021 · Walking through the 18th-century hall — described last week — the modern visitor steps into one of the most completely preserved Elizabethan interiors on the grand scale in Britain; an easy match for the splendours of the long gallery at Haddon or the great chamber at Hardwick.
House & Family History: The core of Gilling Castle is a tower house built for Sir Thomas de Etton in the late 14th century, though the house, as seen today, is primarily the result of 16th and 18th century alterations and additions carried out by members of the Fairfax family.
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