Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Beckford and a
View of the west and north fronts from John Rutter's Delineations of Fonthill (1823)
Cross section of Fonthill Abbey made in 1823
Wyatt's projected design for Fonthill from the west in 1798
Fonthill Abbey from the South West (J. M. W. Turner, 1799)
Fonthill Lake is a lake in southwest Wiltshire, England. It lies just to the south of the village of Fonthill Bishop, east of the village of Fonthill Gifford, and northeast of Fonthill Abbey. The lake