Fountains Abbey
Vast roofless Cistercian ruins beside a stream, founded by rebel monks who fled a wealthy abbey.
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This guide to Fountains Abbey, near Ripon in Yorkshire, begins in the autumn of eleven thirty-two in the cloister of St Mary's Abbey in York, where an archbishop and a band of restless monks face down their own abbot. It follows those brothers out into the valley of the Skell, through a hungry first winter remembered by Serlo, one of their number, and a monk sent from Clairvaux to teach them how to pray. Best heard standing in the roofless nave, close to the stream.
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