Fountains Abbey.

In 1540, the abbey and
quite a bit of its property
was sold to Sir Richard Gresham,
then to Stephen Proctor,
who built Fountains Hall
partly out of stone
from the Abbey's ruins.
The people of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries
posessed quite a passion for
the 'romantic ruin',
and the wonderful, sprawling
ruins of Fountains Abbey
became part of the landscaping
of Fountains Hall.