Lady Chapel (Fountains Abbey)

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Lady Chapel.

[[File:|350px|thumbnail|right|Lay Chapel / Macquoid, Thomas; Macquoid, Katharine. About Yorkshire (London, 1894), p. 265.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-25. Revised by 3.14.70.203, 2020-05-14.

A bow and arrow engraved on the wall of the Lady Chapel at Fountains Abbey may, it has been suggested, be the source of a tradition that Robin Hood's bow and arrow were kept at the abbey.Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• Lefroy, William Chambers. The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire (London, 1891), p. 121 n. 1; cites Walbran, without precise source reference.
• [Walbran, John Richard]; [Smith, Alfred]. The Harrogate Visitors Hand Book (Ripon, 1847), p. 89.

Notes

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  Lay Chapel / Macquoid, Thomas; Macquoid, Katharine. About Yorkshire (London, 1894), p. 265.

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  Lady Chapel / Francis Frith; © Victoria & Albert Museum.