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| Title | Fountains Abbey |
| Country | England |
| Province/County | Yorkshire and Humber |
| City | North Yorkshire |
| Continent | Europe |
| Media | architecture |
| Century | 19th Century |
| Subject 1 | Religion, Piety and Spirituality |
| Subject 2 | Arts and Architecture |
| Keywords | architecture, monasteries, church, Cistercians, religious life, religious houses, religious orders |
| Description | Fountains Abbey. A Cistercian abbey in England. A peaceful and romantic scene. Romanticizations of Fountains goes back to the 19th c., when ruins were deliberately integrated into a picturesque landscape. But Fountains form most of its history as no place to enjoy the beauties of nature, a grim place in spite of its fine buildings, harassed by elements, by incursions of Scotland, by crushing debts. Buildings begun about 1140. |
| Original Source | TBCompleted |
| Secondary Source | Ian Richards, Abbeys of Europe, p. 80. |
| Contributors | R. Harold Garrett-Goodyear |
| Format | jpg |
| Slide ID | ae_9 |
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