Lindeth Tower

Lindeth Tower

Location within the City of Lancaster district
General information
Type	Summerhouse
Location	Silverdale, Lancashire
Country	England
Coordinates	54°09′37″N 2°49′35″W / 54.1603°N 2.8265°W / 54.1603; -2.8265Coordinates: 54°09′37″N 2°49′35″W / 54.1603°N 2.8265°W / 54.1603; -2.8265
Completed	1842
Technical details
Material	Limestone rubble
Floor count	3
Design and construction
Architect	H.P. Fleetwood

Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	2 May 1968
Reference no.	1071845

Lindeth Tower is a Victorian folly in Silverdale, Lancashire, England. It is an embattled square tower of three storeys. It was built in 1842 by the Preston banker Hesketh Fleetwood. Elizabeth Gaskell stayed in the tower in the 1840s and 1850s and her novel Ruth was written there. Lindeth Tower is a Grade II listed building.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Lancashire Life, Silverdale Tower - Elizabeth Gaskell's Lancashire inspiration, Monday 13 June 2011
↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002) North Lancashire, Yale University Press
↑ British Listed Buildings:Lindeth Tower, accessed 15 June 2014

Buildings and structures in the City of Lancaster

Grade I

Ashton Hall Ashton Memorial Borwick Hall Burrow Hall Cockersand Abbey Hornby Castle Judges' Lodgings Lancaster Castle Lancaster Priory Lune Aqueduct Old Rectory Thurnham Hall

Churches Gressingham: St John the Evangelist Heysham: St Patrick St Peter Hornby: St Margaret Melling: St Wilfrid Tunstall: St John the Baptist

Grade II*

Capernwray Hall Custom House Lancaster City Museum Lancaster Moor Hospital Leighton Hall Loyn Bridge Midland Hotel Morecambe Winter Gardens Quernmore Park Royal Albert Hospital Skerton Bridge Thurland Castle Whittington Hall

Churches Arkholme: St John the Baptist Bolton-le-Sands: Holy Trinity Brookhouse: St Paul Cockerham: St Michael Lancaster: Cathedral Ripley School St John the Evangelist Over Kellet: St Cuthbert Overton: St Helen Silverdale: St John Tatham: St James the Less Whittington: St Michael

Grade II

Abbeystead House Cockerham Vicarage The Dukes Grand Theatre Hornby Village Institute Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works Lancaster (Greaves) railway station Lancaster Moor Hospital Lancaster railway station Lancaster Royal Grammar School Leck Hall Lindeth Tower Littledale Hall Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial Queen Victoria Memorial The Storey Wennington Hall Windermere House

Churches Borwick: St Mary Capernwray: Chapel Claughton: St Chad Dolphinholme: St Mark Ellel: St John Glasson: Christ Halton-on-Lune: St Wilfrid Lancaster: Christ Cemetery St Paul, Scotforth St Thomas Leck: St Peter Morecambe: Holy Trinity St John the Divine St Laurence Over Wyresdale: Christ Quernmore: St Peter Slyne-with-Hest St Luke Tatham: Good Shepherd Warton: St Oswald Yealand Conyers: St John the Evangelist St Mary

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Lindeth Tower

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