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View of the west and north fronts from John Rutter's Delineations of Fonthill. (1823) See the link below for a complete copy of this book.

Fonthill Abbey — also known as Beckford's Folly — was a large Gothic revival country house built around the turn of the 19th century at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt. It was constructed near the site of the Palladian house, later known as Fonthill Splendens, which was constructed by his father, William Beckford, to replace the Elizabethan house that Beckford père had purchased in 1744 and which had been destroyed by fire in 1755. The abbey is now almost all demolished.

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The Fonthill Abbey section of a Beckfordiana websi... The Fonthill Abbey section of a Beckfordiana website beckford.c18.net/wbfonthill.html - Web

An online facsimile of an illustrated 1823 guidebo... An online facsimile of an illustrated 1823 guidebook to Fonthill Abbey beckford.c18.net/wbeditions.html - Web

Fonthill Abbey Project Fonthill Abbey Project www.hvtesla.com/fonthill/ - Web

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