HUNTWICK WITH FOULBY AND NOSTELL, West Riding
Nostell Priory Cockpit SE 401 175
Cockpit
The Cockpit at Nostell Priory still retains the turf seating on the raised banks for the spectators but the pit is now a pond.
There is doubt as to whether the cockpit was ever used as cock fighting was banned in England and Wales by the Cruelty to Animals Act in 1835.
For another feature thought to be a cockpit see;
PADSTOW Cornwall, 'Prideaux Cockpit'
The Cockpit at Nostell Priory still retains the turf seating on the raised banks for the spectators but the pit is now a pond.
There is doubt as to whether the cockpit was ever used as cock fighting was banned in England and Wales by the Cruelty to Animals Act in 1835.
For another feature thought to be a cockpit see;
PADSTOW Cornwall, 'Prideaux Cockpit'
Nostell Priory Gothick Archway SE 401 176
The Gothick Archway at Nostell Priory is probably late 18th century.
Nostell Priory Menagerie SE 401 175
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The central portion of the menagerie at Nostell Priory may have been built about 1760 but correspondence from Adam's in 1776 mentions 'The two little rooms in the Menagery', so he could have been the designer of the wings. In 1776, Joseph Rose was paid £6.6s.10p. for plasterwork there. In 1797, the keepers of the animals were paid 12s. a week.
The postcard is dated 1905. |
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Needle's Eye SE 406 185
The approach to Nostell Priory from Huntwick Lodge is a Pyramidal gateway designed by Robert Adam in 1776. It was built the same year by Cosmo Wallace.
It has recently been restored.
It has recently been restored.
