But the Reformation of the 1530s with its dissolution of monasteries, abbeys and chantries would have made the school redundant. |
He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches. |
It is one of the few abbeys to have survived to the present day as a parish church. |
Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors. |
Others included walks from Iona to Holy Island, Canterbury to York, and around the monasteries, abbeys and priories of Yorkshire. |
Iona, and its subordinate abbeys, accepted the Roman Church early in the eighth century, but the Scottish Church did not conform entirely. |