“As I get closer, there's a faint gleam behind the stained-glass windows of the 13th-century abbey.”

“The abbey buildings, huddled round the squat tower of the church, stood out sharp and clear against the pale outcrops of Dun-I hill.”

“He gained greater freedom in 1867 when the monastery was made an abbey and he was appointed abbot as well as a local bishop.”

“But the Reformation of the 1530s with its dissolution of monasteries, abbeys and chantries would have made the school redundant.”

“Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors.”

“It is one of the few abbeys to have survived to the present day as a parish church.”