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Title: The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lefroy, William, 1836-1900
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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on his breast the word Dern. Above is aneaele, and a scroll with the words bndfontesDNO (Benedicite fontes Domino), and on the inside ofthe same stone an angel holding a blank shield, amitred head, and a figure of St. John of Compostella,standing on two fishes. There is also on the key- Fountains* -7 stone of another Early English window, at the north-east of the chapel, a human head entwined with leaves,and on the inside an angel with a scroll on which isthe date Anno Domini 1483. The lower walls ofthis chapel, as well as of the choir, are adorned with abeautiful trifoliatcd arcading, the design of which issaid to have been repeated in the rcrcdos of the high present, indeed, the choir is at best but a seemlyanti-chamber to the glories of the Lady-chapel, butin justice to Abbot John de Cauda we should re-member that such was neither the intention nor theoriginal effect of his design. At the end of the north transept, rising to a heightof nearly 170 feet, is Abbot Hubys tower. In the
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THE REFECTORY, FOUNTAINS ABBEY. altar. Of the upper walls of the choir aisle I cannotspeak with equal admiration. The lancets are hereplaced each under an arcade of one pointed arch be-tween two round-headed ones. The latter rest onone side on single columns from which spring thepointed arches over the lancet windows, while on theother they descend much lower to meet the clusteredshafts which carried the vaulting ribs. It is perhapsdifficult in the present state of the building to judgeof the original effect of this arrangement, but it mustsurely have been more striking than beautiful. At inscriptions above and below its belfry windows, thismajestic structure seems to plead humbly for its ownright to existence:—To the King eternal, immortal,invisible,— to God alone be honour and glory forever and ever. Amen. Only to the praise of God,and not for any pride or extravagance of men, itseems to say, was the old Puritanism forgotten.Times have changed, and what was seemly in thetwelfth

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