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Fonthill Abbey, a Gothic fantasy transformed into reality by William Beckford, an inventive but pampered son of a London lord mayor, once stood in Fonthill, Wiltshire, near Fonthill Gifford and Fonthill Bishop. He amassed a million pounds sterling at the age of 21 and afterwards established himself as a writer. After returning to England after a trip abroad, he commissioned Wyatt, the architect who was responsible for much of the destruction at Salisbury Cathedral and elsewhere, to construct...