The abbey buildings, huddled round the squat tower of the church, stood out sharp and clear against the pale outcrops of Dun-I hill. |
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As I get closer, there's a faint gleam behind the stained-glass windows of the 13th-century abbey. |
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When established in the tenth century by the Benedictines, the abbey was an island refuge surrounded by Rhone marsh lands. |
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The Old Bell Hotel, a beautiful hostelry in the heart of the town near to the abbey, serves award-winning French cuisine. |
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It is thought that she died at Carraigahowley Castle about 1603 and is buried in the ruins of the Cistercian abbey on Clare Island. |
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The King's tremendous support of the abbey of Cluny is discussed thoroughly, as is his foundation and endowment of the Cluniac abbey at Reading. |
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The provision of a model would give a better idea of the size and layout of the abbey and its precinct. |
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The ground beneath the abbey was honeycombed with a series of caves that became the scene of countless orgies and unspeakable rituals. |
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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. |
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Her set and costume design are her usual high standard, though the scenes in the abbey seem a little pinched on the apron of the stage. |
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With all the armed bands of various factions roving the land these days, it was a miracle that they had made it back to the abbey. |
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While it was mostly in ruins, a tall tower that looked more like it belonged on a castle than an abbey rose imperiously over the grounds. |
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Two people were injured and a third left in shock yesterday after an axeman ran amok before launching a frenzied attack inside a historic abbey. |
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I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear. |
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The pay and display machines were scrapped following the opening of a new car park further away on the south side of the abbey. |
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Outside, the crowds had now thronged Parliament Square and banked up alongside the prime real estate bordering the abbey itself. |
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A shrewd, hard-headed businessman typical of his age, he speedily restored abbey finances after years of mismanagement. |
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Audiences could look forward to a glorious summer's evening, with the sun setting behind the abbey. |
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Blond, Brown, Tripel or Christmas, the abbey beers of Tongerlo are all beers of top fermentation. |
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Large monasteries were known as abbeys, whilst smaller ones were called priories and were often set up near an abbey. |
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A retired vicar made his sermon at a time when the abbey is waiting for its newly appointed vicar to be inducted at Easter. |
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The main visible evidence of the abbey is a vaulted undercroft below the Great Hall. |
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He wraps her in a sheet like a corpse and carries her body to the abandoned abbey near the manor. |
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About 50 years ago they got so unroyally grubby that abbey authorities would not permit even antiquarians to see them. |
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Nowhere is this more apparent than Westminster abbey, which he established as the royal necropolis. |
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His body was later taken to Whitby abbey, where he was venerated as a saint. |
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Most of the infrastructure is completed, including the framework for the spire on the abbey tower. |
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While in Auxerre Abbey he experienced a vision in which Saint Germain instructed him to find Selby and build an abbey there. |
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The abbey gardens always look fantastic, but to coincide with the tower celebrations the current display looks particularly sprauncy. |
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He stole into the abbey in the dead of night, intent on stealing a personal memento of Scotland's greatest king. |
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The agreement of English Heritage would also be needed for the site around the abbey to be used again for staging the plays. |
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His writings state the abbey founded a large farmstead, or grange, and a water mill 20 miles away near Wharram Percy, south of Malton. |
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Monks were brought to the abbey from Saint Giles, thus it operated as a succursal church of the French monastery. |
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Within the abbey, some monks had particular jobs to do and specific titles, such as the cellarer. |
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He was knighted, given the estates of the abbey of Wilton, and appointed a gentleman of the bedchamber. |
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For those with stout boots and stout hearts, there is a spectacular breathtaking, circular-kilometre walk from the abbey through the mountains. |
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One person who presented his ideas on the longitude was Jacques Graindorge, the prior of a Benedictine abbey in Fontenay near Caen. |
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Visiting the abbey at Monte Cassino, Morris removed his abbatial cross as a sign of humility. |
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The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France. |
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A few years after, and probably in response to, the foundation of the abbey, this church became an Augustinian priory. |
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He gained greater freedom in 1867 when the monastery was made an abbey and he was appointed abbot as well as a local bishop. |
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Aelred, a friend and follower of St. Bernard, defined holy friendship for the monks of his abbey. |
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The abbey and college are also Ryedale's second largest employer and trustees are asking planners to consider the benefits to the local economy. |
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A native and monk of Sherborne, Stephen joined the abbey of Molesme near Dijon. |
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The abbey was founded in 1132 and monks lived in it for 400 years until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. |
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Some of the monks leave the abbey to serve mass, speak at other religious communities, and to collect materials for the workshops. |
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Before it was a cathedral, back in medieval times, it was an abbey, Gerrie explains. |
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The annual service is held at a different abbey or cathedral in the UK every year. |
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The abbey hath belonging to it temporally and spiritually plowlands and granges. |
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There is no finer example of the medieval reuse of Roman spolia than in the abbey church at Hexham in Northumberland. |
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On one of our last days we found ourselves in a church we'd never heard of, the abbey of Mozac near Clermont-Ferrand. |
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Inside the abbey people sat quietly in the choir stalls or on chairs in front of lit candles, absorbed in prayer or contemplation. |
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There were signs of an assault in the damaged wooden palisade, but the abbey itself appeared unharmed. |
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After his official welcome, both at the old abbey and the cathedral, he received the freedom of the city at the Town Hall. |
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William was crowned by Archbishop Ealdred on Christmas Day, in Edward's new abbey cathedral at Westminster. |
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The monk in charge of an abbey was the abbot, elected for life by the brethren. |
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A few miles along the river, continue past the ruins of a twelfth century abbey, and over an old stone bridge. |
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The effigy on her tomb in the abbey shows her beauty and is remarkable for its attention to detail. |
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You'll see twin onion domes rising in the distance long before you arrive at this massive abbey standing in the middle of nowhere. |
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Some buildings charge admission but the ruins of the abbey, next to the parish church, are free. |
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The most long-lasting result was the invention of Carolingian miniscule, developed at abbey of Corbie. |
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The abbey is a so-called royal peculiar, one of a handful of churches under the Queen's direct control. |
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The Maundy Service, which is held annually at a cathedral or abbey, dates back to before the Middle Ages. |
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The writings specify an abbey that has lain unused for a century, and that is what this is. |
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He was a sergeant paratrooper who commanded a group of men at the abbey. |
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The abbey church still stands and is the burial place of Robert the Bruce. |
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Edgar, first King of All England, was crowned on Whit Sunday by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Saxon abbey on the site of the present Bath Abbey. |
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The swans became the symbol of Selby and are on the abbey coat of arms. |
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Funds poured into a restoration appeal and the Iona Community is now a world-famous centre for religious pilgrimage, with the restored abbey its crowning glory. |
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I was stabbed by him in the abbey of the Black Monks of Perth. |
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In accordance with Cistercian principles, the spaces of the new abbey are arranged around a cloister with a church as the focal point and heart of the project. |
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It also includes artist impressions together with a painting by Jonathan Foyle, recreating the abbey as it may have appeared in about 1500 from the River Thames. |
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Every day, I drove from my flat in Mayfair to abbey Road in joyous expectation of what magic I would be participating in that day. |
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She considered becoming a nun in a French abbey that was once liberated by her grandfather. |
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The great church doors at the very end of the abbey were opened, and Evangelina Stiles was coming in on the hand of her father, the Stiles cigarette baron himself. |
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They prayed for everyone in the abbey and the community at large. |
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He pointed to the space between the two towers of the abbey church. |
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The collection of a regalia for coronation purposes added to the solemnity and antiquity of the occasion and seems to have been begun by the monks of Westminster abbey. |
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And so it came about that it was Norman monks who established the abbey. |
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Holy Cross abbey, near the English bridge, has a fine early Norman nave. |
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You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey. |
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Nestling around the ruins of the abbey where Mary Queen of Scots spent her last night on Scottish soil, the village of Dundrennan is a picture postcard of tranquillity. |
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They are the most complete remains of a Cistercian abbey in Britain. |
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Seven hundred miles to the northwest along the rugged isles of Scotland's western coast, a restored Benedictine abbey is home to the Iona Community. |
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On my first attempt to spend time with the Trappists at Spencer, I was unable to get a room at the abbey, so I stayed at Mary House, about a mile away. |
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People don't consider that their old farm buildings or the shopfronts in their towns are heritage, but do think that the ruined castle or abbey is. |
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Couples can combine a visit to the abbey with a three-course supper at the restaurant in the visitors centre, where the Trust is promising a menu with a romantic theme. |
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At this point Surrey was evidently under Kentish domination, as the abbey was founded under the patronage of King Ecgberht of Kent. |
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The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary. |
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By the rood! if I had my will upon ye, I should nail you upon the abbey doors, as they hang vermin before their holes. |
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Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in dishabille sneaked off. Yet this was an abbey! |
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In 1097, William II began the building of Westminster Hall, close by the abbey of the same name. |
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Some monasteries, like the Cistercian abbey at Kinloss, opened their doors to a wider range of students. |
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Benedict into England, but there is no evidence the abbey followed the Benedictine Rule at the time of its foundation. |
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Soon after the dissolution of the abbey in 1539, during the reign of Henry VIII, the church was demolished, leaving the graves intact. |
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The 1999 archeological excavation uncovered the foundations of the abbey buildings and some bones. |
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The Cistercian abbey of Poblet, in the district of Tarragona, was enthusiastically patronized by the king-counts. |
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This first abbey was destroyed in 870 by Danish invaders and rededicated to Etheldreda in 970 by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester. |
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In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne. |
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Benedict into England, but there is no evidence that the abbey followed the Benedictine Rule at the time of its foundation. |
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This church was destroyed after the Norman Conquest to make way for a new abbey church. |
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This seems to be quoted to justify the gifts of salmon from Thames fishermen that the abbey received in later years. |
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The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. |
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The abbey built shops and dwellings on the west side, encroaching upon the sanctuary. |
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In the 1990s, two icons by the Russian icon painter Sergei Fyodorov were hung in the abbey. |
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On 17 September 2010, Pope Benedict XVI became the first pope to set foot in the abbey. |
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Henry III rebuilt the abbey in honour of a royal saint, Edward the Confessor, whose relics were placed in a shrine in the sanctuary. |
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One of these was Geoffrey Chaucer, who was buried here as he had apartments in the abbey where he was employed as master of the King's Works. |
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Subsequently, it became one of Britain's most significant honours to be buried or commemorated in the abbey. |
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During the early 20th century it became increasingly common to bury cremated remains rather than coffins in the abbey. |
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Members of the Percy Family have a family vault, The Northumberland Vault, in St Nicholas's chapel within the abbey. |
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Westminster School and Westminster Abbey Choir School are also in the precincts of the abbey. |
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In June 2009 the first major building work at the abbey for 250 years was proposed. |
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A project that is proceeding is the creation of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in the medieval triforium of the abbey. |
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To this end a new Gothic access tower with lift has been designed by the abbey architect and Surveyor of the Fabric, Ptolemy Dean. |
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Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, devoted lords had given the abbey extensive lands across the Channel. |
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On 4 November 1539 the abbot and his monks were expelled and the abbey was dissolved. |
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After his death, Aidan's body was buried at Lindisfarne, beneath the abbey that he had helped found. |
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He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, until Henry's threats against the order obliged him to return to Sens. |
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The various styles are seen at their most fully developed in the cathedrals, abbey churches and collegiate buildings. |
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Many of the large abbey churches, particularly those outside the towns, were robbed, burnt out and abandoned. |
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The abbey is part of the World Heritage Site of Canterbury, along with the cathedral and the ancient Church of St Martin. |
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The cathedral ceased to be an abbey during the Dissolution of the Monasteries when all religious houses were suppressed. |
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In time, a market was established at the abbey gates and the settlement expanded. |
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According to the Gesta he returned the treasures looted from the abbey after having a vision of Saint Peter. |
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Alcuin made the abbey school into a model of excellence and many students flocked to it. |
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Alcuin trained the numerous monks of the abbey in piety, and it was in the midst of these pursuits that he died. |
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It is also close to the original abbey ruins, is near a fresh water pool and overlooks the sand dunes and beach at Carn Near. |
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In 1104 Augustinian monks founded an abbey, called Kloosterrade, to the west of this settlement. |
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The abbey became a popular place of pilgrimage for St Fergus, whose skull the Abbots kept as a relic in a silver casket by the atlar. |
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In June 1559 the abbey was attacked by a reformist mob from Dundee having been whipped up into a frenzy by the great reformer John Knox. |
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The abbey was severely damaged during this attack despite Knox's apparent efforts to calm the mob. |
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The abbey ruins are on the site of the Bailey of the very early Lincluden Castle, as are those of the later Lincluden Tower. |
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Gildas' relics were venerated in the abbey which he founded in Rhuys, until the 10th century, when they were removed to Berry. |
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William founded a monastery at the site of the battle, the high altar of the abbey church supposedly placed at the spot where Harold died. |
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The battlefield and abbey grounds are currently owned and administered by English Heritage and are open to the public. |
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Llywelyn died at the Cistercian abbey of Aberconwy, which he had founded, and was buried there. |
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Many new houses were formed that were all subservient to the abbey of Cluny and called Priories. |
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Some of the stained glass windows in the church came from the dissolved abbey at Basingwerk on the banks of the River Dee below Holywell. |
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Edward and his troops took over the abbey site and moved the monks down the Conwy valley to a new site at Maenan, establishing Maenan Abbey. |
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The parish church still retains some parts of the original abbey church in the east and west walls. |
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So David instead commissioned an extension to be built to the abbey, east of the Old Church. |
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Both the abbey and Llanbadarn Fawr were important monastic sites of scholarship and education. |
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At first, the abbey church of St Mary and St Peter, founded by Athelstan in 932 and rebuilt in 1019, served as the cathedral. |
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A medieval column capital sculpture depicting this was made in the 12th century in the abbey church in Mozac, France. |
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Norman ducal patronage financed the spectacular Norman architecture of the abbey in subsequent centuries. |
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The abbey was closed and converted into a prison, initially to hold clerical opponents of the republican regime. |
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He designed the Romanesque church of the abbey, daringly placing the transept crossing at the top of the mount. |
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After having set fire to the village and having massacred the population, he was obliged to beat a retreat under the powerful walls of the abbey. |
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They are tenants of the centre for national monuments and are not involved in the management of the abbey. |
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The abbey graveyard contains the graves of many early Scottish Kings, as well as kings from Ireland, Norway and France. |
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He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region for centuries. |
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Columba died on Iona and was buried in 597 by his monks in the abbey he created. |
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He donated money to the abbey at Cluny itself, and after 1120 gave generously to Reading Abbey, a Cluniac establishment. |
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Tavistock Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon, is a ruined Benedictine abbey in Tavistock, Devon. |
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Nothing remains of the abbey except the refectory, two gateways and a porch. |
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The abbey church, dedicated to Our Lady and St Rumon, was destroyed by Danish raiders in 997 and rebuilt under Lyfing, the second abbot. |
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In 1538 the last abbot, John Peryn, together with twenty monks, surrendered the abbey to the king, receiving a pension of a hundred pounds. |
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Only Sheviock was in the hands of the abbey while Ermenhald held five manors from it. |
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King Henry I gave the hermits' territory to the abbey of Tavistock, which established a priory on Tresco that was abolished at the Reformation. |
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Desiderius was sent to the abbey of Corbie, and his son Adelchis died in Constantinople, a patrician. |
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In late December, shortly after Christmas, the combatants met in the grounds of an abbey in the northern Paris suburbs. |
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The settlement grew up around the palace and abbey, as a service area for them. |
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From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks. |
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In 1082 a Cluniac abbey was founded at Bermondsey by Alwine, a wealthy English citizen of London. |
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His travelling companion Anscar Vonier became the next abbot and pledged to fulfil his dying wish, namely to rebuild the abbey. |
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The manor of Brent belonged to Buckfast Abbey from the time of the foundation of the abbey in the early 11th century. |
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Peter from ninth-century Rome and Francia to thirteenth-century Peterborough where they appeared in an antiphoner at the Benedictine abbey there. |
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In 1177, Henry II refounded the church as an Augustinian abbey as part of his penance for the murder of Thomas a Becket. |
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As well as exhibiting historical objects, the new PS19m space will give visitors views over the abbey and Palace of Westminster. |
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The event was attended by Royal Mail area manager Jenny Cole, Michael Gregory, the Royal Mail's special handstamp manager, and abbey trustees. |
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By the early 11th century, the abbey was the hub of a huge Cluniac federation of monasteries that were all ultimately under the authority of the abbot of Cluny. |
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Evesham Abbey held Weethley in the 14th century and in 1344 the Musard family raided the parish, killing three abbey servants and stealing several hundred sheep. |
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Every year the abbey opens its doors to the public for the fall festival, which features arts and crafts, rides and games, entertainment and a variety of food. |
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A translating machine in which the abbey has acquired frequently goes haywire and ruins the messages that monks try to send to different appendant bodies of the church. |
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In 1147 it became a Cistercian abbey and was rebuilt in stone. |
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To the east the effect of the old buildings looking towards the abbey is so fine that little need be done beyond the necessary repair and reharling of these. |
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For example, each Benedictine abbey is an independent foundation, but will often choose to group themselves into congregations based on historical connections. |
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The initial grant for the abbey was signed by Carloman, the son of Charles Martel, and a supporter of Boniface's reform efforts in the Frankish church. |
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Viking raids extended deep into the Frankish territory, and included the sacking of many prominent towns such as Rouen, Paris and the abbey at Jumieges. |
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The abbey had been built on land donated by Plectrude's mother, Irmina of Oeren, but most of Willibrord's missionary work had been carried out in Frisia. |
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When the abbey was rebuilt by the Normans, the site was moved. |
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About 1450, the Conventual Franciscans established an abbey on the island. |
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This abbey was later moved to Maenan, becoming the Maenan Abbey, near Llanrwst, and Llywelyn's stone coffin can now be seen in St Grwst's Church, Llanrwst. |
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He recuperated from his illness in a house belonging to the brother of Sir James Balfour at the former abbey of Kirk o' Field, just within the city wall. |
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Some of the canons continued on at the abbey and there is evidence suggesting that the spire of the abbey church was repaired in the aftermath of the reformation. |
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The former abbey is now the Rolduc Congress Center in Kerkrade. |
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James II abandoned the tradition of the pageant to pay for jewels for his queen and thereafter there was only a short procession on foot from Westminster Hall to the abbey. |
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The music in the abbey was widely criticised in the press, only one new piece having been written for it and the large choir and orchestra were badly coordinated. |
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According to the account in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, he was first a herdsman before living as a monk at the abbey of Whitby in Northumbria in the 7th century. |
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During the reforms of Dunstan, archbishop from 960 until his death in 988, a Benedictine abbey named Christ Church Priory was added to the cathedral. |
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The abbey church became derelict before being restored as the city's parish church in the Elizabethan era, when the city experienced a revival as a spa. |
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The argument presented in the Proslogion has rarely seemed satisfactory and was swiftly opposed by Gaunilo, a monk from the abbey of Marmoutier in Tours. |
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This grave is the only one in the abbey on which it is forbidden to walk. |
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From the Middle Ages, aristocrats were buried inside chapels, while monks and other people associated with the abbey were buried in the cloisters and other areas. |
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His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year. |
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The first reports of the abbey are based on a late tradition claiming that a young fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site. |
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Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral. |
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Bede wrote some works designed to help teach grammar in the abbey school. |
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