Fonthill Abbey
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fonthill-abbey-188-10497955
title:
Fonthill Abbey
text:
Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt. It was built near the site of the Palladian house, later known as Fonthill Splendens, which had been constructed by 1770 by his father William Beckford. This, in turn, had replaced the Elizabethan house that Beckford the Elder had purchased in 1744 and which had been des
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Former country house in Wiltshire, England
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonthill_Abbey
date created:
2003-10-28T18:34:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T00:30:05Z
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13
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