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Fountains abbey (Yorks.) was founded in Skelldale in 1132 by a group of dissident reforming monks of Benedictine St Mary's, York. In 1133 they adopted the Cistercian rule. The mismanagement of its largely pastoral economy at the end of the 13th cent. brought Fountains close to ruin. Nevertheless, the late Middle Ages saw substantial building works and at the dissolution Fountains was still the wealthiest Cistercian abbey in England.

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