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Fountains Abbey: 05. Monks' or Inner Parlour

Location
(54°6′35″N, 1°34′56″W)
Fountains Abbey: 05. Monks' or Inner Parlour
SE 274 683
  • Rita Wood
14 Jul 2002, 01 Sep 2002, 04 May 2015, 21 Jun 2015

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Description

The parlour at Fountains is of three bays and runs W to E from the cloister, immediately S of the Chapter House. The original vault survives, and so the sculpture on the supporting corbels is probably in the best state of any at the abbey. It is also some of the most ornate that was provided, and the easiest to see.

For further information, see report for Fountains Abbey, church.

History

Built, with both its entrances, at the same time as the chapter house immediately to the N, in the time of abbot Richard, by 1170 (Coppack 1993, 45). See also Gilyard-Beer 1970, 47.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Interior Features

Vaulting/Roof Supports

Other
Comments/Opinions

Before they became so weathered, the corbels in the Chapterhouse would probably have been very similar in style to these.

Bibliography

G. Coppack, The English Heritage Book of Fountains Abbey (London, 1993).

R. Gilyard Beer, Fountains Abbey,North Yorkshire (HMSO, 1970).