| By 1216 there were approximately 700 houses and some 13,000 monks, nuns, canons, and canonesses. |
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| In Scotland there were a dozen or so nunneries, mainly Cistercian, and in Ireland about ten of the 140 monasteries were nunneries, all of them for regular canonesses. |
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| The Renaissance stalls, dating from 1566, comprise 32 seats in oak for the canonesses that attended the religious services in the women's choir. |
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| Exclusively for canonesses of noble birth, it was suppressed at the French Revolution. |
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| This was long in the custody of the community of Augustinian canonesses who until 1983 lived at the convent at Abbotskerswell Priory, Devon. |
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