North Yorkshire Religious Education Pilot Project
The Chapter House
This was the abbey's parliament, law court and administrative centre. |
The monks met here every day, and the building gets its name from the reading of a chapter of the Rule of St. Benedict to open every meeting. |
At first, meetings were concerned with internal orgaisation and discipline, but as Fountains Abbey acquired more and more land, they must have become more like board meetings of a big company. |
 The abbey became very rich. The monks were sworn to personal poverty. Would it be easy to live like that? |
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