Fountains Abbey
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Fountains Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery near Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1132 under the direction of Thurstan, archbishop of York, and over the next four centuries be
West of the Abbey
Fountains Abbey - Huby's Tower
Interior of the abbey church looking down the nave
View of Fountains Abbey looking from west to south
Studley Royal Park
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Studley Royal Park is an estate in North Yorkshire, England. The site has an area of 800 acres and includes an 18th-century landscaped garden; the ruins of Fountains Abbey; Fountains Hall, a Jacobean
Fountains Abbey
…and diverse landholdings. The monastery was dissolved in 1539 as part of the English Reformation and its estates sold. Fountains Abbey is now within Studley Royal Park, a landscaped garden created in the eighteenth century. Even in its current state, Fountains is described by Historic England as "the best preserved…
The landscape garden from "Surprise View"
The River Skell runs through the estate.
Studley Park, Yorkshire, engraved by F. P. Hay after a drawing by John Preston Neale, c. 1820
Great Gate, or East Gate, Studley Royal