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Beautiful Ruins Of Fountains Abbey

Vast Monastic House Of Pilgrimage

Long ago Fountains Abbey, in fat is cut away from the lean"- Yorkshire, WAS described asso a morkish chronicler relaten. "the crown and glory of all that They went out, taking nothing of

monasticism has left us in Eng- the abbey's gouds, save their frocks there was a vast assemblage drawn

land." Amidst its beautiful ruins (only;

together to celebrate at a religious service the 800th anniversary of its

foundation.

For four centuries. Fountains Abbey flourished as the greatest Cistercian house in England. Then came the suppression of the monas- teries, and its fate was that of so many others.

It was left a ruin. but a glorious ruin. Freely as the despoiler's hand

used, could remove but a part of all this piled stone.

was

Violence was threatened them.

But Thurstan, the powerful Arch-

KILLS BOREDOM.

bishop of York, refused to treat viewed from afar, was the last CARE OF THE HOME these men as deserters, and for work to be added. It rates from their use he granted a farmstead, the Abbacy of Marmaduke Huby, with neighbouring fields, in the wild region of Skeldale.

Assembled under an elm tree, the brothers elected Richard the Prior as their Abbot, and in the vale they raised their first church, bullt of wooden logs.

1494-1526. The position chosen is quite exceptional in the plan of conventual churches, for it occu- pies the extreme end of the north- ern transept.

Cloister Walks.

Large parts of the domestic

Count Your Blessings, Philosopher Says."

(By Philosopher.) ·

After some time the wandering offices are still standing in solid is it more or less just a shelter Is your bungalow a real home or bund accepted the Cistercian rule, stone, or may be traced by the from the rain? Why is it so many The remoteness of the site has and received endowment when foundation courses now exposed; women in this country take so lit been largely responsible for the of York, who brought with him a better than in any other ruin

they were joined by Hugh, Dean and one is able to recover here, tle interest in the running of their preservation of what remains goodly store of money. The for- England, the plan and arrangement the joy and satisfaction there is in in own house? If only they realized. Fountains Abbey stards in the grounds of Studeley Royal, but tunes of the primitive house rapid of a large Cistercian monastery.

running things properly, seeing the two or three miles distant from in the brothers removed to the site ing land between the church and that the house is as clean as the ly enlarged, and as wealth poured In the spacious refectory, cover-servants are pulling their weight, Ripon, and to-day is easily access on which the Fountaina Abbey we the River Skell, notice the niche in proverbial new pin, they would get aible. But before the era of rail- ways and motorcars a journey in-

which one of the brothers read much more out of life. Work of Many Ages. to the North Riding of Yorkshire

The during meals. That grand structure is the work vaulted kitchen is fairly complete, it is to be bored, it all depends on adjoining It is just as easy to be happy as was an enterprise not lightly un- of many ages. The great church with buttery hatches opening into the point of view one adopta. dertaken. The country around has will first engross attention, and at the refectory. Ranging with these count one's blessinga is often good always been pastoral, and there first sight it seems, save for being is the frater, which has suffered for the soul, and an exercise ons are no large centres of population roofess, to be complete. The nave more considerably by the despot-might indulge in more often. Too

Into The Wild

and transept are transitional Nor- lers. It is still easy to trace where much amusement and too easy

For the building of Fountains Hall, the stately Elizabethan man- sion which overlooks the River Skel, the Abbots Lodging and some other parts were pulled down by Sir Stephen Proctor, a purchaser of the confiscated property. Others also had large pickings, and times has left its scars. Still, Fountains

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stood the base court, the cellar, and life is bad for anyone, small wor the three prisons-for there were der women out East become bored such places for obstinate brethren. so quickly.

One may pace, too, the cloister walks whereon the monks 50 often passed in meditation..

.The Seizure.

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Once the dissolution of the monasteries had become a question

BREAKFAST:-Orange juice, of policy, King Henry VIII's Com cereal, cream, baked eggs, bran missioners at Fountains found no bread toasted, milk, coffee. difficulty in formulating charges. TIFFIN:-Casserole of veget Abbot Thirsk was accused of allowables, rye bread and cheese toast- ing the house to decay, of wasting ed sandwiches, sliced pineapple, the woods, and permitting various cup cakes, milk, tea.

faults to pass unchecked. But at DINNER:-Filet of flounder the best it was a poor case, and baked with tomatoes and onions, he was allowed to resign and was spaghetti timbales, stuffed beat given a pension. Later, for parti salad, sour cream raisin ple, milk, cipating in the Pilgrimage, of Grace, he was brought tg Tyburn and there banged...

coffee..

Marmaduke Bradley, who replac(Continued from previous column). ed him as the last Abbot-"well"

learned, and a wealthier fellow keen eye for a site. The setting surrendered Fountains Abbey to, of Fountains Abbey is perfect.

years. Price per farat H.K.$7.50. Within the walls of St. Mary's Terms Cash or C.O.D. Those who was great discontent among the purchase diamonds to the value of more austere of the brothers at the H.K.$30 or more will get 20% dix-laxity of discipline and observance man, and appear to have been the King in 1539. Its possessions There is nothing that excels it in of the rule which prevailed. In finished by the year 1190, Long and were so great that the lands were the English landscape, and inte the year 1132 thirteen of their num- narrow, its walls of great height; said to have extended.

that landscape the Abbey fits with ber, the Prior being one, "separat- the nave is most solemn and im- ed themselves from the rest, as the pressive. There is no triforium.

"From the foot of Pennygent a perfection that rarely is obtain to the boundaries of St. Wilfrid ed elsewhere. The whole design is singularly of Ripon, an uninterrupted space

Low hear the water, where the plain and unadorned, in compli of more than 30 miles. Besides meadow is emerald green, the ruins ance with the austerity observed many other wide domains, the stand out, silvery-grey in that clear by the Cistercian Order !!! lands in Craven contain, in a atmosphere, with wooded heights A change' of architectural style ring fence, a hundred square and rocky ledges about them. The is evident when the visitor passes

miles, or 60,000 acres on a moder- view

emerges from the the transept and enters the choir. ate computation"

trees is wholly enchanting. OF Originally this, too, was tran- Withal the annual income, was one may cross the river by the pic- sitional Norman, but the entire stated at the suppression to be no turesque mediaeval bridge, the choir was enlarged and rebuilt by more than £1,173 087d-of course, more usual way of approach. The|| three successive Abbots of Foun- a sum vastly larger than the money first impression gained is that bere tains in the first half of the thir- now represented by those figures. is something typically and essen- teenth century. To them we owe Why Fountains" Abbey? peo- tially English perhaps the grand- the beautiful Chapel of the Nine ple sometimes ask. The, name it eat ruin that England has to show. Altars, so called from the nine self charms. It was Sancta Maria chapels within it, which is exquide Fontibus-Our Lady of the

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site still in its roofless condition. Springs. In the valley of the Skell

Slender columns uphold the point many springs ther rose to the sur

86 one

KLIM PUNCH

ed arches that remain poised, high face and joined their waters with THE DRINK TO TAKE AWAY aloft.

the river, as, indeed, may be seen The tower, the most conspicuous to-day, laga

THAT JADED FEELING object in Fountains Abbey when Assuredly the old monké had al

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