The Abbey Ruins

 The next folly is beyond the fence, a pleasant walk away.

The Abbey Ruins is King's best expression of a folly, taking pieces of buildings, steeped in history, and reimagining them as something that looks ancient.

And here we have it.

It is in four sections, with this one containing the crest of a former Speaker of the House at Westminster, a fireplace hearth from the original Centre Block which had been destroyed by fire in 1916, and stones in that fireplace that King had taken from the printing office that his grandfather had established. Everything here has meaning.

The next section over includes more stones from the original Centre Block, gathered up around a stone tablet that features the Arms of England.

A nearby section we'll look at more tomorrow, this is from a house that was being demolished in Ottawa. King acquired sections of it to be reestablished here.