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540: 528: 141: 516: 38: 148: 487:. It was intended as a banqueting house and the central table is still set as if for a meal. It is decorated with elaborate ceiling paintings and is furnished in the period style. The basement housed the kitchen and living quarters and nowadays it holds an exhibition on 399: 233: 402:. The site is a grass-covered terrace following a serpentine course across the side of a wooded escarpment overlooking the ruins of the abbey. At either end of the terrace stand two mid-18th century 527: 631: 626: 539: 636: 140: 453:) some ten years previously. His desire was to complement, and perhaps even surpass, the more formal terrace and temples laid out in about 1730 by his father at 515: 498: 464:
Two temples are on the site. At the south-east end of the terrace is the domed Doric or Tuscan Temple, thought to be a scaled-down version of the
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house a mile away. It is thought that he may have planned to join the two terraces by a scenic drive along the
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who had inherited it from his father along with the adjoining Helmsley estate (now
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At the opposite end stands the Ionic Temple, inspired by the
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a few miles away. The pavement floor came from the choir of
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The Tuscan Temple at the southern end of Rievaulx Terrace
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The Ionic Temple at the northern end of Rievaulx Terrace
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Historic landscaped terrace in North Yorkshire, England
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