Huby’s Tower, Fountains Abbey. 
After a dispute and riot in 1132 at the Benedictine house of St Mary's Abbey in York, 13 monks were expelled. They had complained that their brother monks were living a high life, not in keeping with their calling. The expelled monks were taken under the protection of the Archbishop of York who provided them with land which had all they needed for the creation of a monastery, providing shelter, stone and timber for building, and a water supply. The Abbey was built and Fountains became the second Cistercian house in northern England. Some think Huby’s tower, named after Abbot Marmaduke Huby, was a vanity project, others think it a selfless act. 

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