An aerial pan at Fountains Abbey, captured on a cold morning with a light mist hanging in the valley. Founded in 1132, this became one of the great Cistercian houses of England - built on discipline, organisation, and a landscape shaped to serve the abbey as much as frame it. From above, the scale makes sense: the long church, the ranges, the layout of a working monastic world rather than a single “ruin”. The mist does something brilliant here. It softens the edges, pulls the eye along the river

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Real Aled Jones visits Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal, National Trust in Yorkshire, the largest and best-preserved Monastic ruins in the UK and discovers some remarkable new evidence about the community of monks who lived there. Songs of Praise, Sunday 1st May 2022 on BBC One and afterwards here bbc.in/3yQKZ9a in the UK. | BBC Songs of Praise

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