Domed structure in woodland at Harewood

Wool · Post by **Wool** » Mon 07 Feb, 2011 4:19 pm

When I was walking on one of the bridleways on the Harewood estate this weekend, I noticed a classical style circular structure -a dome supported by pillars- in woodland over the wall adjacent to the roadway. Does anyone know anything about this structure? I was walking from the entrance to the estate at Weardley along the metalled roadway which emerges at Harewood village hall and has views over the Wharfe valley. I think it is a former tollroad which the Harewood estate later had diverted to the current route of Arthington Lane. The dome can be seen in the woods to your right just as the roadway reaches the top of the hill from where it follows a straight and flat line to the village hall about half a mile away. Looking at the OS map, the dome is in an area of woodland called the Grove to the North of Harewood House and the West of Harewood Church

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 07 Feb, 2011 7:55 pm

There's nothing on the old maps 1850 onwards. The only structure in those woods is an arbour. If you get a photo of it next time your that way, that should make it easier to work out what it was perhaps.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Mon 07 Feb, 2011 11:44 pm

Wool wrote: When I was walking on one of the bridleways on the Harewood estate this weekend, I noticed a classical style circular structure -a dome supported by pillars- in woodland over the wall adjacent to the roadway. Does anyone know anything about this structure? I was walking from the entrance to the estate at Weardley along the metalled roadway which emerges at Harewood village hall and has views over the Wharfe valley. I think it is a former tollroad which the Harewood estate later had diverted to the current route of Arthington Lane. The dome can be seen in the woods to your right just as the roadway reaches the top of the hill from where it follows a straight and flat line to the village hall about half a mile away. Looking at the OS map, the dome is in an area of woodland called the Grove to the North of Harewood House and the West of Harewood Church Isn't this a shelter typical of walks in victorian private grounds.There is a thread dealing with the one in Elmete Hall's grounds which can be accessed from the park.There's a piccy of it too so may look similar.Such shelters stopped you getting wet - catch yer death in them days.

jim · Post by **jim** » Tue 08 Feb, 2011 12:29 am

I don't know the area, but I recall a that few years ago a "stupa"was built in the grounds at Harewood. Might that be what was seen?

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Tue 08 Feb, 2011 8:19 am

jim wrote: I don't know the area, but I recall a that few years ago a "stupa"was built in the grounds at Harewood. Might that be what was seen? The Harewood "Stupa" was built in 2004, commesurate with the Himalayan Garden.It's on.......Victorian shelter or Himalayan Stupa????Place your bets.Stupas are domed but not usually set on pillars?

Wool · Post by **Wool** » Tue 08 Feb, 2011 12:51 pm

It is definitely not the stupa. It is more like a temple or folly- along the lines of some of the classical garden buildings at Fountains Abbey, if a little more modest in scale.The location of the arbour marked on the 1851 map is probably not too far off, but I always thought of an arbour as being something more rustic in style.