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FONTHILL ABBEY
Fonthill Abbey Also known as Beckford's Folly and was a Gothic Revival House built around the turn of 19th century at Fonthill Gifford ( Wiltshire ) England at the direction of William Thomas Beckford and architect James Wyatt , it was constructed near the site of the Palladian House latter Known as Fonthill Splendens which was constructed by his father William Beckford to Replace the Elizabethan house that Beckford had purchased in 1755 . the Abbey is now almost all demolished .
ECONOMY
- Fonthill Abbey was a brainchild of Willism Thomas Beckford , son of wealthy English plantation owner William Beckford and a student of architect sir William Chambers , as well as of James Wyatt , architect of the project in 1771 .
- when Beckford was ten years old he inherited £1000.000 ( Roughly £100 Million ) and income which his contemporaries estimated at around £100,000 per annum , a colossal amount at the time ( equivalent to £10 million) the Newspapers of the period described him as "the richest commoner in England"
CONSTRUCTION
- The first part was the tower that reached about 90 metres ( 300 ft ) before it collapsed , the new tower was finished six years later .
- Beckford immediatly started to build another one , this time with stone and this work was finished in seven years .
DECORATION
The Abbey part was decorated with silver , Gold , red and purple , Four long Wings radiated from the octagonal central room. Front doors were 35 feet (10 m) tall. It was declared finished in 1813 .
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