The cloister at Fountains Abbey, wrote Gilyard-Beer, 'is about 125ft square, and once had a covered alley on each side, the lean-to roof of which has left marks on the surrounding buildings. Fragments of the alley walls survived until 1770, but there are no visible remains today although the foundations were traced in the nineteenth-century excavations' (Gilyard-Beer 1970, 44).
The cavity for the tabula remains on the E wall, this was the waxed board which showed the daily duties of the various monks.
Enough fragments remain for reconstruction drawings of the cloister arcades to have been made (see Comments).
Stonework of the earlier cloister has been identified, superceeded by later more obvious work (Coppack 2012, 10; fig. 2.4).
For further information, see report for Fountains Abbey: church.