Fountains Abbey
Britishnoun
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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 neighbourhood of Ripon subterranean passages have been found from time to time—tunnels of finely moulded masonry supposed to have been connected at one time with Fountains Abbey.
From Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. by Fea, Allan
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