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=== Background === | === Background === | ||
Many items here have not been seen. Although several briefly mention the Robin Hood traditions connected with the abbey, they are of more interest for the general background information they provide on the abbey. | Many items here have not been seen. Although several briefly mention the Robin Hood traditions connected with the abbey, they are of more interest for the general background information they provide on the abbey. | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1806a}} | * {{:Anonymous 1806a}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1806b}} | * {{:Anonymous 1806b}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1828a}} | * {{:Anonymous 1828a}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1828b}} | * {{:Anonymous 1828b}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1838a}} | * {{:Anonymous 1838a}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1839a}} | * {{:Anonymous 1839a}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1895a}} | * {{:Anonymous 1895a}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1949a}} | * {{:Anonymous 1949a}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1950a}} | * {{:Anonymous 1950a}} | ||
* {{:Anonymous 1988a}} | * {{:Anonymous 1988a}} | ||
* {{:Armstrong, J L 1905a}}, pp. 82-85 | * {{:Armstrong, J L 1905a}}, pp. 82-85 | ||
* {{:Baddeley, Mountford John Byrde 1890a}}, pp. 55-61 | * {{:Baddeley, Mountford John Byrde 1890a}}, pp. 55-61 | ||
* {{:Barber, Fairless 1874a}} | * {{:Barber, Fairless 1874a}} | ||
* {{:Beckett, Lucy 1998a}} | * {{:Beckett, Lucy 1998a}} | ||
* {{:Bell, Charles Carlyle 1932a}} | * {{:Bell, Charles Carlyle 1932a}} | ||
* {{:Black, Adam 1858a}}, pp. 216-23 | * {{:Black, Adam 1858a}}, pp. 216-23 | ||
* {{:Black, Adam 1871a}}, pp. 36-53 | * {{:Black, Adam 1871a}}, pp. 36-53 | ||
* {{:Borough of Harrogate 1986a}} | * {{:Borough of Harrogate 1986a}} | ||
* {{:Bunnett, Reginald James Albert 1953a}} | * {{:Bunnett, Reginald James Albert 1953a}} | ||
* {{:Collins, Henry 1866a}} | * {{:Collins, Henry 1866a}} | ||
* {{:Coppack, Glyn 1993a}} | * {{:Coppack, Glyn 1993a}} | ||
* {{:Coppack, Glyn 2003a}} | * {{:Coppack, Glyn 2003a}} | ||
* {{:Fry, Plantagenet Somerset 1981a}} | * {{:Fry, Plantagenet Somerset 1981a}} | ||
* {{:Goldsmith, Tessa 2011a}} | * {{:Goldsmith, Tessa 2011a}} | ||
* {{:Grainge, William 1880a}} | * {{:Grainge, William 1880a}} | ||
* {{:Henderson, Arthur Edward 1948a}} | * {{:Henderson, Arthur Edward 1948a}} | ||
* {{:Hodges, George 1904a}}. Has several atmospheric "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogravure photogravures]" of the abbey ruins and surroundings | * {{:Hodges, George 1904a}}. Has several atmospheric "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogravure photogravures]" of the abbey ruins and surroundings | ||
* {{:Hope, William Henry St John 1900b}} | * {{:Hope, William Henry St John 1900b}} | ||
* {{:Lefroy, William Chambers 1891a}}, pp. 77-122 | * {{:Lefroy, William Chambers 1891a}}, pp. 77-122 | ||
* {{:Lowther, Kenneth Ernest 1980a}} | * {{:Lowther, Kenneth Ernest 1980a}} | ||
* {{:Macquoid, Thomas R 1894a}}, pp. 246-57; Robin Hood pp. 248-49 | * {{:Macquoid, Thomas R 1894a}}, pp. 246-57; Robin Hood pp. 248-49 | ||
* {{:Michelmore, David John Harold 1974a}} | * {{:Michelmore, David John Harold 1974a}} | ||
* {{:Michelmore, David John Harold 1981a}} | * {{:Michelmore, David John Harold 1981a}} | ||
* {{:Moody, Charles Harry 193xa}} | * {{:Moody, Charles Harry 193xa}} | ||
* {{:Moody, Charles Harry 1978a}} | * {{:Moody, Charles Harry 1978a}} | ||
* [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEMQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationaltrust.org.uk%2Fdocument-1355766967731%2F&ei=idXtUcOMKZHVsgbZzoDYDg&usg=AFQjCNFTy184XNsEiPD6WoHkgjtUQXqrGw&sig2=RA0Abdi7bFbBcfUlLL-xJw National Trust: Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal World Heritage Site Management Plan 2009-2014] | * [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEMQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationaltrust.org.uk%2Fdocument-1355766967731%2F&ei=idXtUcOMKZHVsgbZzoDYDg&usg=AFQjCNFTy184XNsEiPD6WoHkgjtUQXqrGw&sig2=RA0Abdi7bFbBcfUlLL-xJw National Trust: Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal World Heritage Site Management Plan 2009-2014] | ||
* {{:Newman, Mark A 1996a}}; not seen | * {{:Newman, Mark A 1996a}}; not seen | ||
* {{:Newman, Mark A 2009a}}; not seen | * {{:Newman, Mark A 2009a}}; not seen | ||
* {{:Oxford, Arnold Whitaker 1926a}} | * {{:Oxford, Arnold Whitaker 1926a}} | ||
* {{:Oxford, Arnold Whitaker 1954a}} | * {{:Oxford, Arnold Whitaker 1954a}} | ||
* {{:Parker, George 1902a}} | * {{:Parker, George 1902a}} | ||
* {{:Parker, George 1905a}} | * {{:Parker, George 1905a}} | ||
* {{:Parker, George 1910a}} | * {{:Parker, George 1910a}} | ||
* {{:Phillips, Alan 1970a}}, see especially p. 39 | * {{:Phillips, Alan 1970a}}, see especially p. 39 | ||
* {{:Pickford, John 1882a}}, pp. 13-14 | * {{:Pickford, John 1882a}}, pp. 13-14 | ||
* {{:Reeve, J 1892a}} | * {{:Reeve, J A 1879a}} | ||
* {{:Robson, Peter 1983a}} | * {{:Reeve, J A 1892a}} | ||
* {{:Sopwith, J 1832a}} | * {{:Robson, Peter 1983a}} | ||
* {{:Storer, James Sargant 1820a}} | * {{:Sopwith, J 1832a}} | ||
* {{:Thomas, Cyril Leonard Ross 1916a}} | * {{:Storer, James Sargant 1820a}} | ||
* {{:Tute, J S 1890a}} | * {{:Thomas, Cyril Leonard Ross 1916a}} | ||
* [http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/FOUNTAINS/index.html University of California Davis: Fountains Abbey]. Excellent series of photographs | * {{:Tute, J S 1890a}} | ||
* {{:Walbran, John Richard 1847a}}, pp.25-31; Robin Hood: pp. 26-27 | * [http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/FOUNTAINS/index.html University of California Davis: Fountains Abbey]. Excellent series of photographs | ||
* {{:Walbran, John Richard 1851a}}, pp. 63-91: 'Fountains Abbey' | * {{:Walbran, John Richard 1847a}}, pp.25-31; Robin Hood: pp. 26-27 | ||
* {{:Walbran, John Richard 1854a}} | * {{:Walbran, John Richard 1851a}}, pp. 63-91: 'Fountains Abbey' | ||
* {{:Walbran, John Richard 1856a}}, pp. 65-100: 'Fountains Abbey' | * {{:Walbran, John Richard 1854a}} | ||
* {{:Walbran, John Richard 1863a}} | * {{:Walbran, John Richard 1856a}}, pp. 65-100: 'Fountains Abbey' | ||
* {{:Walbran, John Richard 1863b}} | * {{:Walbran, John Richard 1863a}} | ||
* {{:Walbran, John Richard 1873a}} | * {{:Walbran, John Richard 1863b}} | ||
* {{:Walbran, John Richard 1875a}}, pp. 90-136: 'Fountains Abbey' | * {{:Walbran, John Richard 1873a}} | ||
* {{:Wardrop, Joan 1987a}} | * {{:Walbran, John Richard 1875a}}, pp. 90-136: 'Fountains Abbey' | ||
* {{:White, Walter 1858a}}, pp. 302-306 | * {{:Wardrop, Joan 1987a}} | ||
* {{:Whone, Herbert 1987a}} | * {{:White, Walter 1858a}}, pp. 302-306 | ||
* [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/fountains-abbey/ Fountains Abbey website | * {{:Whone, Herbert 1987a}} | ||
* [http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/fountains-abbey/ Fountains Abbey website] | |||
* {{:Wood, E S 1946a}}. | * {{:Wood, E S 1946a}}. | ||
Revision as of 07:03, 28 May 2018
Fountains Abbey.
Fountains Abbey viewed from the west / Photo by David Iliff. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-28.
Fountains Abbey is the home of the "Curtal Friar" and the scene of the main action of the ballad of Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar (Version A in MS of c. 1650, version B first printed 1663). This Cistercian monastery was founded in 1132 and dissolved in 1539. The ruins are a grade I listed building owned by the National Trust. Together with the gardens and adjacent deer park they form the UNESCO World Heritage site Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey.[1]
Although the play of Robin Hood and the Friar (printed c. 1560) has essentially the same plot as the ballad of Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar it never mentions Fountains Abbey or refers to Robin Hood's adversary as the Curtal Friar. The ballad is the first known source to connect the friar with Fountains Abbey.
Within the abbey grounds lie (or lay) two places named after Robin Hood: Robin Hood's Wood and Robin Hood's Well, while a third, the Lady Chapel, has Robin Hood associations. In Nidderdale, some 12 km west of the abbey grounds, Fountains Abbey owned an extensive, mainly moorland, area known as Fountains Earth, within which was found a place named Robin Hood's Park and another Robin Hood's Well.
Quotations
[c. 1650:]
When Robin came to Fontaines Abey,
Wheras that fryer lay,
He was ware of the fryer where he stood,
And to him thus can he say.[2]
[1663:]
That causd Will Scadlock to laugh,
He laughed full heartily:
'There lives a curtal frier in Fountains Abby
Will beat both him and thee.
'That curtal frier in Fountains Abby
Well can a strong bow draw;
He will beat you and your yeomen,
Set them all on a row.'
'If thou wilt forsake fair Fountains Dale,
And Fountains Abby free,
Every Sunday throughout the year,
A noble shall be thy fee.[3]
Allusions
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
- Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, p. 123.
- Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, pp. 124, 126.
- Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. V, p. 191.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 119 (1856; surveyed 1849-53)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXIX.SW (1910; surveyed 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXIX.SW (1930; surveyed 1928)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXIX.SW (1947; surveyed 1938)
Photos
Background
Many items here have not been seen. Although several briefly mention the Robin Hood traditions connected with the abbey, they are of more interest for the general background information they provide on the abbey.
- Anonymous. Title: History of Ripon: With Descriptions of Studley Royal, Fountain's Abbey, Newby, Hackfall etc. (Ripon, 1806)
- Anonymous. The History of Ripon, comprehending a Civil and Ecclesiastical Account of that Ancient Borough. To which is added, a Description of Fountains Abbey, Studley, and Hackfall. And an Appendix, containing Charters, etc. (Ripon, 1806)
- Anonymous. The New Harrogate Guide: Being a Concise Description and History of what is most Remarkable in that Neighbourhood, for Antiquity, Elegance or Rural Beauty (Harrogate, 1828)
- Anonymous. The Tourist's Companion; being a Description and History of Ripon, Studley Park, Fountains Abbey, Hackfall, Brimham Craggs, [...] Newby Hall, Knaresborough, [...] Harrogate and Harewood House [...] (Ripon, 1828)
- Anonymous. The Tourist's Guide; being a Concise History and Description of Ripon, Studley Royal, Fountains Abbey, Markenfield, Brimham Rocks, Hackfall and Newby Hall, etc. (Ripon, 1838)
- Anonymous. The History of Ripon, with Historic Notices and Descriptions of Fountains Abbey, Studley, [...] Forming a Compendious Guide for Visitors (Ripon, 1839)
- Anonymous. 'The Sanctuary, Westminster', Notes & Queries, Series 8, vol. VII (1895), p. 181
- Anonymous. Guide to the Yorkshire Dales, Harrogate, Ripon, Ilkley, Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey, York (London & Melbourne, [1949])
- Anonymous. Title Guide to Harrogate: Knaresborough, Ripon, Ilkley, Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey, York and the Dales (Ward Lock's Illustrated Guide Books) (London, 1950)
- Anonymous. Look at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal (Bessacarr, ©1988)
- [Armstrong, J. L.]; Piggott, G. W., index. Armstrong's Harrogate Hand-Book, and Visitor's Vade Mecum (Harrogate, [1905]), pp. 82-85
- Baddeley, M. J. B. Yorkshire (Part II.): West and Part of North Ridings and All Parts of the Country West of the N. E. Main Line, also Barnard Castle (London, 1890), pp. 55-61
- Barber, Fairless. An Essay in Explanation of Fountains Abbey, etc. (Leeds, 1874)
- Beckett, Lucy. Rievaulx, Fountains, Byland & Jervaulx: the Cistercian Abbeys of North Yorkshire (Norwich, 1998)
- Charles Carlyle. The Story of Fountains Abbey (London, [1932])
- Black, Adam; Black, Charles. Black's Picturesque Guide to Yorkshire (Edinburgh, 1858), pp. 216-23
- Black, Adam; Black, Charles. Black's Guide to Harrogate and Vicinity: including Fountains Abbey, Bolton Priory, and Ripon (Edinburgh, 1871), pp. 36-53
- Borough of Harrogate. Borough of Harrogate. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ([?], 1986-06-11)
- Bunnett, Reginald James Albert. Fountains Abbey: its History and Buildings. With Notes on the Principal Officers, etc., of a Cistercian Abbey ([Harrogate], [1953])
- Collins, Henry 1866a
- Coppack, Glyn. English Heritage book of Fountains Abbey (London, 1993)
- Coppack, Glyn. Fountains Abbey (Stroud, 2003)
- Fry, Plantagenet Somerset. Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire (London, 1981)
- Goldsmith, Tessa; Groves, Anna, ed. Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, North Yorkshire: A Souvenir Guide ([Great Britain], ©2011)
- Grainge, William. Annals of a Yorkshire Abbey: A Popular History of the Famous Monastery of Fountains (Harrogate, [c. 1880])
- Henderson, Arthur Edward. Fountains Abbey Then and Now (London, 1948)
- Hodges, George. Fountains Abbey: The Story of a Mediæval Monastery (London, 1904). Has several atmospheric "photogravures" of the abbey ruins and surroundings
- Hope, W.H. St. John. 'Fountains Abbey', Yorkshire Archæological Journal, vol. XV (1900), pp. 269-402
- Lefroy, William Chambers. The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire (London, 1891), pp. 77-122
- Lowther, Kenneth Ernest; Hammond, Reginald J.W. The Yorkshire Dales: Harrogate, Ilkley, Ripon, Bolton Abbey, Fountains Abbey (London, 1980)
- Macquoid, Thomas; Macquoid, Katharine. About Yorkshire (London, 1894), pp. 246-57; Robin Hood pp. 248-49
- Michelmore, David John Harold, ed. The Fountains Abbey Rental, 1495/6 (Leeds, 1974)
- Michelmore, D.J.H., ed. The Fountains Abbey Lease Book (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, vol. 140). [Leeds] (1981)
- Moody, C.H. Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey: Historical and Descriptive Sketches Ripon, [193?])
- Moody, Charles Harry. Fountains Abbey and Fountains Hall (London, 1978)
- National Trust: Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal World Heritage Site Management Plan 2009-2014
- Newman, M.A. Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate: An Archaeological Survey ([s.l.], The National Trust, 1996); not seen
- Newman, Mark A. Observations and recording at Robin Hood’s Well, Fountains Abbey, March-Sept 06. [s.l.]: National Trust, 2009; not seen
- Oxford, Arnold Whitaker. The Ruins of Fountains Abbey (London, 1926)
- Oxford, Arnold Whitaker. Guide to Fountains Abbey (Ripon, 1954)
- Parker, George. Ripon Cathedral, Studley Royal, Fountains Abbey and District (Ripon, [1902])
- Parker, George. Ripon, Studley Royal, Fountains Abbey, &c. ([Ripon], [c. 1905])
- Parker, George. Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey (Ripon, [1910?])
- Phillips, Alan. Fountains Abbey: Yorkshire ([s.l.], 1970), see especially p. 39
- Pickford, John. A Week in the Yorkshire Dales. Second Edition (Manchester, 1882), pp. 13-14
- Reeve, J.A. 'The Cistercians and Fountain Abbey'. Transactions of the Berkshire Archæological and Architectural Society, vol. [II] (1879-80), pp. 3-14
- Reeve, J. A Monograph on the Abbey of S. Mary of Fountains (London, 1892)
- Robson, Peter. Fountains Abbey: A Cistercian Monastery (Helperby, York, ©1983)
- Sopwith, J. Eight Views of Fountains Abbey [...] etched on Copper-Plate, from [...] Drawings by J. Metcalf, and J. W. Carmichael: With Historical and Architectural Description (Newcastle, [1832])
- Storer, James Sargant; Storer, Henry Sargant. Delineations, Graphical and Descriptive, of Fountains' Abbey, in the West Riding of the County of York. With Historical Notices (London; Cambridge, [1820?])
- Thomas, Cyril Leonard Ross. Fountains Abbey (London, [1916])
- Tute, J.S. Handy Guide to Fountains Abbey (1890)
- University of California Davis: Fountains Abbey. Excellent series of photographs
- [Walbran, John Richard]; [Smith, Alfred]. The Harrogate Visitors Hand Book (Ripon, 1847), pp.25-31; Robin Hood: pp. 26-27
- Walbran, John Richard. A Guide to Ripon, Harrogate, Fountains Abbey, Bolton Priory, and Several Places of Interest in their Vicinity (Ripon, 1851), pp. 63-91: 'Fountains Abbey'
- Walbran, John Richard. On the Excavation now in Progress at Fountains Abbey, with Some Remarks on the Early History of the Monastery (London, 1854)
- Walbran, John Richard. A Guide to Ripon, Harrogate, Fountains Abbey, Bolton Priory, and Several Places of Interest in their Vicinity (Ripon, 1856), pp. 65-100: 'Fountains Abbey'
- Walbran, John Richard. The Shilling Guide to Ripon, Studley, Fountains Abbey, Hackfall, Harrogate, etc. (Ripon; London, 1863)
- Walbran, John Richard, ed.; Fowler, J.T., ed. Memorials of the Abbey of St. Mary of Fountains. (The Publications of the Surtees Society, vols. XLII, LXVII and CXXX) (1863-1918)
- Walbran, John Richard. A Guide to Ripon and Fountains Abbey. Abridged from Mr. Walbran's Guide (Ripon, 1873)
- Walbran, John Richard; Raine, James, revis.; Stephenson, William Fowler, revis. A Guide to Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Harrogate Bolton Priory, and Several Places of Interest in their Vicinity (Ripon; London, 1875), pp. 90-136: 'Fountains Abbey'
- Wardrop, Joan. Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors, 1132-1300 (Cistercian Studies Series, No. 91) (Kalamazoo, Mich., 1987)
- White, Walter. A Month in Yorkshire (London, 1858), pp. 302-306
- Whone, Herbert, photog. & ed.; Gibson, Lord, introd. Fountains Abbey (Otley, 1987)
- Fountains Abbey website
- Wood, E.S. The Ancient Buildings of the Harrogate District ([Harrogate], 1946).
Brief mention
Notes
- ↑ Fountains Abbey website.
- ↑ Curtal Friar A, st. 5.
- ↑ Curtal Friar B, sts. 6-7, 39.
Fountains Abbey from the south-west.
Fountains Abbey viewed from the west / Photo by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountains_Abbey#/media/File:Fountains_Abbey,_Yorkshire,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg David Iliff. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0.]
Fountains Abbey / From Hodges's 1904 book.
Fountains Abbey / From Gasquet, 1908.
Interior of the abbey church looking down the nave.
Fountains Abbey from the east / From: Walbran (Surtees Soc.), 1863.
Plan of Fountains Abbey / From early 20th century encyclopedia.
Fountains Abbey / From Black's Picturesque Guide to Yorkshire, 1858.
Fountains Abbey / Drawing by Thomas Macquoid.
Fountains Abbey / From Walbran, 1857.
Fountains Abbey / From Walbran, 1857.
Fountains Abbey, south transept doorway / From Macquoid, Thomas; Macquoid, Katharine. About Yorkshire (London, 1894), p. 254.
