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Fountains Abbey

British  
/ ˈfaʊntɪns /

noun

  1. a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Closer to home, he took his family to a middle-of-nowhere ruins, Fountains Abbey, where the few strangers there addressed him by his TV name: “Oh, hey, Nate. How are you? You all right?”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

With works including sketches by Jean Cocteau and Andy Warhol and David Hockney’s “Ian, Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire” photographic collage, the London-based fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu has turned his Mayfair boutique into a home.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2016

Not everyone can visit Penshurst or the National Gallery or Fountains Abbey "out of hours", as Bennett's programme note implies he is able to do.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2012

Lewis Birkinshaw, 17, Bradford Academy's current citizen of the year, will carry the torch at Fountains Abbey in Ripon, which is a world heritage site.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2012

In the ruins of Fountains Abbey are specimens having the pattern pierced through the entire tile, and afterwards filled in with clay of another colour.

From Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Field, Walter

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