Rievaulx Terrace Ionic Temple 1
The Ionic Temple at Rievaulx Terrace, built at the northern end of the terrace in the 1750s, believed to have been designed by Sir Thomas Robinson, based on the Maison Carree, in Nimes.
The interior was used as a dining room and is elaborately decorated, with a frescoed ceiling with mytholgical scenes.
Rievaulx Terrace forms a natural viewing platform above the Ryedale Valley, home to Rievaulx Abbey. The potential for the hillside to be used as a terrace was spotted by Thomas Duncombe II in the mid-18th century.
He commissioned a landscaper to compose the terrace between 1749 and 1757, with temples at either end and views, down through gaps cut in the trees, of the abbey.
There are two temples on the terrace, the Tuscan Temple and the Ionic Temple, the latter of which served as a kitchen and dining room for guests of the Duncombe family who came to visit.
The National Trust now look after the terrace and the temples, giving visitors the chance to experience the site as others did centuries ago.
Rievaulx Terrace Ionic Temple 1
The Ionic Temple at Rievaulx Terrace, built at the northern end of the terrace in the 1750s, believed to have been designed by Sir Thomas Robinson, based on the Maison Carree, in Nimes.
The interior was used as a dining room and is elaborately decorated, with a frescoed ceiling with mytholgical scenes.
Rievaulx Terrace forms a natural viewing platform above the Ryedale Valley, home to Rievaulx Abbey. The potential for the hillside to be used as a terrace was spotted by Thomas Duncombe II in the mid-18th century.
He commissioned a landscaper to compose the terrace between 1749 and 1757, with temples at either end and views, down through gaps cut in the trees, of the abbey.
There are two temples on the terrace, the Tuscan Temple and the Ionic Temple, the latter of which served as a kitchen and dining room for guests of the Duncombe family who came to visit.
The National Trust now look after the terrace and the temples, giving visitors the chance to experience the site as others did centuries ago.