Easter warrants the simplest of crosses in the hall at Fountains Abbey
The complexity of the construction at Fountains Abbey makes you consider what might have been without the dissolution in the 16th century. Arch way lead to arch and yet another arch!
Framed by the remnants of one window are the impressive ruins of the Cistercian monastery at Ripon
The moss and ferns give atmosphere to the steps many monks would have taken out of the main abbey hall.
March has not yet awakened the leaves on the branches. Spring would be an exciting time for the monks and shepherds who would have been hoping for a good crop of lambs for future wool production. Wool and sheep were the source of most of the abbey’s wealth.
This view was too stimulating to ignore even though it of arches and buttresses rather than just arch windows.