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The abbey buildings, huddled round the squat tower of the church, stood out sharp and clear against the pale outcrops of Dun-I hill.
As I get closer, there's a faint gleam behind the stained-glass windows of the 13th-century abbey.
When established in the tenth century by the Benedictines, the abbey was an island refuge surrounded by Rhone marsh lands.
The Old Bell Hotel, a beautiful hostelry in the heart of the town near to the abbey, serves award-winning French cuisine.
It is thought that she died at Carraigahowley Castle about 1603 and is buried in the ruins of the Cistercian abbey on Clare Island.
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.
The provision of a model would give a better idea of the size and layout of the abbey and its precinct.
The ground beneath the abbey was honeycombed with a series of caves that became the scene of countless orgies and unspeakable rituals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear.
The pay and display machines were scrapped following the opening of a new car park further away on the south side of the abbey.
Outside, the crowds had now thronged Parliament Square and banked up alongside the prime real estate bordering the abbey itself.
A shrewd, hard-headed businessman typical of his age, he speedily restored abbey finances after years of mismanagement.
Audiences could look forward to a glorious summer's evening, with the sun setting behind the abbey.
Blond, Brown, Tripel or Christmas, the abbey beers of Tongerlo are all beers of top fermentation.
Large monasteries were known as abbeys, whilst smaller ones were called priories and were often set up near an abbey.
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According to the custumal of one great English abbey, the kitchener was to be almost a paragon of virtue.
Soon after a second Church of St. Mary was built by the sacrist at the south-west corner of the abbey cemetery.
An abbey was founded at birr by St Brendan, to whom the present parish church is dedicated.
Even at the date of Domesday Book the abbey held no less than thirty manors.
They lived in poor, mean cabins, far from the towns and under the protection of a seigneurial chteau or abbey.
He gave him also the abbey of Remesbury in wilts, with much lands belonging to it.
Some monks of the abbey were requested to come also and exorcise the spirit.
In the XVI-century religious wars the abbey was pillaged, and its library, a national treasure, was burned.
The older name of Hameln was Hameloa or Hamelowe, and the town owes its origin to an abbey.
They may have been removed there from the abbey for safety at the time of the dissolution.
Three versions of the fabliau testify that Carados and his amie deposited the mantle in a Welsh abbey.
For this crime he was executed on the site of the present abbey, and in 772 was canonised.
The same author has called attention to some obituary notes in the calendar prefixed to the chartulary of Derley abbey.
Here, Chilvers, I want you to do a couple of columns on that stunt at the abbey this morning!
She is as soft-spoken as a wind-harp swinging in an abbey door.
His spirit must be chastened, as must that of many more in this abbey.
Henry's body was carried home, and buried in the abbey of Hales.
This was a Benedictine abbey of great repute in the diocese of Rouen.
The Cistercian abbey of Ourscamp is now a cotton spinning mill.
These or portions of them are now to be found in the abbey of saint-denis.
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