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[[Fájl:Fountains Abbey.jpg|thumb|left|old photo|200px|Fountains]]
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Parallel with the western walk is an immense vaulted substructure, incorrectly styled the cloisters, serving as cellars and store-rooms, and supporting the dormitory of the ''conversi'' ([[lay brother]]s) above. This building extended across the river. At its southwest corner were the necessaries, also built, as usual, above the swiftly flowing stream. The monks' dormitory was in its usual position above the chapter-house, to the south of the transept.
[[Fájl:Stone_Mason_marks_as_seen_in_the_Chapter_House_of_Fountains_Abbey.jpg|thumb|right|200px|This photograph shows three different Stonemason marks, which can be seen in the Chapter House of Fountains Abbey.]]
Peculiarities of arrangement include the position of the kitchen, between the refectory and calefactory, and of the infirmary (unless there is some error in its designation) above the river to the west, adjoining the guest-houses. In addition, there is a greatly lengthened choir, commenced by Abbot [[John of York]], 1203–1211, and carried on by his successor, terminating, like [[Durham Cathedral]], in an eastern transept, the work of Abbot [[John of Kent]], 1220–1247, and to the tower, added not long before the dissolution by [[Abbot Huby]], 1494–1526, in a very unusual position at the northern end of the north transept.
The abbot's house, the largest and most remarkable example of this class of buildings in the kingdom, stands south to the east of the church and cloister, from which it is divided by the kitchen court, surrounded by the ordinary domestic offices. A considerable portion of this house was erected on arches over the Skell. The size and character of this house, probably, at the time of its erection, the most spacious house of a subject in the kingdom, not a castle, bespeaks the wide departure of the Cistercian order from the stern simplicity of the original foundation. The hall was one of the most spacious and magnificent apartments in medieval times, measuring 170 ft by 70 ft. Like the hall in the castle at [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winchester]], and [[Westminster Hall]], as originally built, it was divided by 18 pillars and arches, with three aisles.
Among other apartments, for the designation of which see the ground-plan, was a domestic oratory or chapel, 46½ ft by 23 ft, and a kitchen, 50 ft by 38 ft. The whole arrangements and character of the building bespeak the rich and powerful feudal lord, not the humble father of a body of hard-working brethren, bound by vows to a life of poverty and self-denying toil. In the words of [[Dean Milman]], "the superior, once a man bowed to the earth with humility, care-worn, pale, emaciated, with a coarse habit bound with a cord, with naked feet, had become an abbot on his curvetting palfrey, in rich attire, with his silver [[cross]] before him, travelling to take his place amid the lordliest of the realm." – (Lat. Christ. vol. iii. p. 330.)
[[Fájl:Fountains_Abbey_view_2005-08-27.jpg|left|thumb|600px|View of Fountains Abbey looking from east to south.]]
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