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Sentence Examples A large cross sits atop the bell tower of the new Franciscan priory church, dominating the skyscape of the city of Mostar. The priory houses one of England's best collections of Chippendale furniture, designed especially for the house by the great cabinetmaker. The small isle of St. Michael's Mount, accessible by foot when the tide is out, has been home to a priory, castle and stately home. Council chiefs have slammed vandals who deliberately damaged a historic priory. A few years after, and probably in response to, the foundation of the abbey, this church became an Augustinian priory. After his recovery, Abelard resumed teaching at a nearby priory, primarily on theology and in particular on the Trinity. The peat produced in these turbaries was sometimes used within the manor or priory, but a large proportion was sold. The buildings were originally an Augustinian priory built in the twelfth century to which the O'Cahan clan had added a medieval tower-house. There is much to explore here with the foundations of the monastic priory buildings still clearly visible to the south of the church. Amongst monasteries a priory was generally a smaller foundation than an abbey and was in many cases a monastery of monks subordinate to an abbey. After living a dissolute, ungodly life, the priest, who was nearing death, came to seek solace at a Cluniac priory. They rented a small house from the German hotelkeeper, beside the Augustinian priory and oldest church in North India. The Saint-Sauveur church and the remains of the adjoining priory, both Romanesque, bear witness to that period. A religious house was founded on the site in 660, and the parish church of Saints Peter and Paul was the former priory church. Before buying the priory, the couple had rented a cottage nearby from the Duke of Marlborough on his Blenheim Palace estate. Reaching the priory of Ocaña that same evening he prostrated himself on the floor and begged the capitulars to free him from the office. Residents have the grounds to themselves before the priory opens to the public at 10am each day. Over the centuries, the property continued to retain its priory function as it was passed down amongst miscellaneous abbeys and seigneuries. During his secondary studies he took lodging in the student hostel in St. Aegidio Dominican priory. In the XIth century a priory around the church testifies of a rustic community. Show More Sentences The old Roman priory sits high above Châtel-Saint-Germain, dominating the valley. Water control and retention ponds also feature prominently among the Government's topmost priory actions. Any extraction or attempt of extraction, total or partial, is prohibited unless given priory authorization from the management of Protéus. Indeed, the priory is such a beautiful place it attracts regular worshippers from as far afield as Sedbergh and Dalton-in-Furness to attend services there. Oronsay was allegedly one of St Columba's stopovers en route to Iona and a 16 th-century priory and magnificent Celtic cross are among its attractions. In a royal charter of 13 April 1330, Edward III granted the priory further rights. In the early 12th century, Henry I allowed the foundation of a priory in Carlisle. The town gained the status of a city when its diocese was formed in 1133, and the priory became Carlisle Cathedral. The persons responsible for the office of Justice and Peace wanted to find a way in which to share these persons' experience with as many people as possible who have links with our priory. His superiors recalled him to Denmark in 1525 because of his growing sympathy with the Reformation, and at Viborg, in Jutland, he was briefly confined in his order's priory. A priory once stood on the site of Spinney Abbey Farm and, on still nights, spectral monks have been seen and heard chanting across the fen, and strange lights bob towards Spinney Bank. The priory was given the care of souls in the secular islands by the lord of the fief. An explanation of the origin of the name is that the Priest's Town refers to a priory set up by St Wilfrid near the Ribble's lowest ford. The global legal profession representatives have cooperated among themselves in order to try to reach agreement on priory areas for further examination. Gradually, the village expanded between the castle and the priory. Sir Clarence and his men have been ordered to arrest the prior and his monks but the villagers of Wenlock, who enjoy the goodwill of the nearby priory, are committed to prevent this from happening. They transported travellers or accommodated them at the priory in bad weather. The bishop planned and began a much larger church as his cathedral, to which was attached a priory, with the bishop's palace beside it. After Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, the manuscript was separated from the priory. The body was lost after the Reformation, which led to the demolition of the priory. Show More Sentences This was at one time Scotland's largest building, originated in the priory of Canons Regular founded by Bishop Robert Kennedy. His brother Richard was captured, and Henry and Edward retreated to the local priory and surrendered the following day. A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. As such, the priory came to represent the Benedictine ideals espoused by the Cluniac reforms as smaller, lesser houses of Benedictines of Cluny. The priory was built by Gilbert of Sempringham, the only English Saint to have founded a monastic order. He was canonized on 13 October 1202 for the many miracles noted at his tomb in the priory and Sempringham became a site of pilgrimage. He founded the Benedictine priory, now the Priory Church of St Mary, in the late 11th century. The priory is widely regarded as one of the finest fortified religious buildings in Britain. Over the centuries the priory has sustained some damage, but nonetheless it is still inhabited by its current owners, the Turbervill family. The priory is not open to the public but the attached Church is still in use today. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished. The priory remained the only seat of a bishopric in Northumbria for nearly thirty years. During this period religious art continued to flourish on Lindisfarne, and the Liber Vitae of Durham began in the priory. The standing remains date from this later priory, while the site of the original priory is now occupied by the parish church. After Henry VIII suppressed the priory, his troops used the remains as a naval store. The site of the original priory church was redeveloped in stone as the parish church. The church is a Grade I listed building number 1042304, listed as part of the whole priory. King Henry I gave the hermits' territory to the abbey of Tavistock, which established a priory on Tresco that was abolished at the Reformation. Carisbrooke Priory was an alien priory, a dependency of Lyre Abbey in Normandy. The priory was situated on rising ground on the outskirts of Carisbrooke close to Newport on the Isle of Wight. Show More Sentences The country house Holker Hall, which was built on land which once belonged to the priory, is nearby. In the 15th century a Carthusian priory was founded by King Henry V at Sheen. Gilbert died at Sempringham in 1189 and was buried in the priory church. In 1553, King Edward VI granted Totnes a charter allowing a former Benedictine priory building that had been founded in 1088 to be used as Totnes Guildhall and a school. As well as Dunster Castle, Dunster's other attractions include a priory, dovecote, yarn market, inn, packhorse bridge, mill and a stop on the West Somerset Railway. His scandalized superiors ordered him out of Zealand and held him in the priory at Viborg under close confinement until he should come to his senses. The earliest known religious building in the area was the Benedictine priory, known as Pill Priory, which was dissolved during Henry VIII's reign. Situated between Skipton and Harrogate, it is close to the 12th Century priory, the dramatic narrowing of the Wharfe at the Strid, and the ruined 16th Century hunting lodge. Lindisfarne Castle was built in 1550, around the time that Lindisfarne Priory went out of use, and stones from the priory were used as building material. Henry I bestowed the minster and its estates on Reading Abbey, which founded a priory at Leominster in 1121, although there was one here from Saxon times. Investigations to the north of the priory in 2005 located the position of the cloister, although most of the stone had been stolen following the Dissolution. The earliest records state that the Mersey ferry began operating from Birkenhead in 1150, when Benedictine monks under the leadership of Hamon de Mascy built a priory there. Examples from Classical Literature In the grounds, among the remains of Brown's ornamental work, was an icehouse, amidst the imitative ruins of a priory. The building is very old, and was originally the church of the Augustinian priory. In 1338 the Earl of Salisbury established here a priory for Augustinian monks. A cluniac priory founded here shortly after the Conquest has left no remains. In ancient times it was a priory, and it has been a castle since the Norman Conquest. In a corner of the adjacent field we observe the vivarium, or fish-pond of the priory. The new establishment, however, was for monks only, and was for some time merely a priory. The ancient priory of Austin Friars was at Ludlow, but is obliterated. There was a letter from Aunt Rachel waiting for her at the priory. There was a chapel on one side, the buildings of the priory on the others. I have learned it by looking from my own chamber window and marking these poor monks of the priory, their weary life, their profitless round. Saint-Leu-d'Esserent was an important priory of the cluniac order. Find more words! 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