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Fountains Abbey

George Hodges

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[These plans are derived from the Yorkshire Archæological Journal vol. xv.]

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ERRATA

Plate facing page 52. For “The Cloisters”
read “The Cellarium”

Page 9, lines 3 and 13. For “Rievaux”
read “Rievaulx”

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CHAPTER I

THE BEGINNING

The first Fountains Abbey was a forest tree. In the days of the simple beginning, the brethren ate and slept and said their prayers under an elm which stood in the middle of the valley.

The elm lived into the eighteenth century, and toward the end of its life was made to divide its honours with a group of venerable yews. Some said that th. . . Read More