Sentences with abbey
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A a - From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.
- They prayed for everyone in the abbey and the community at large.
- The abbey church still stands and is the burial place of Robert the Bruce.
- Æthelbald, king of Mercia, had a church built over his tomb, which later became the abbey of Crowland.
- The annual service is held at a different abbey or cathedral in the UK every year.
- 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.
- There is no finer example of the medieval reuse of Roman spolia than in the abbey church at Hexham in Northumberland.
- Before it was a cathedral, back in medieval times, it was an abbey, Gerrie explains.
- A native and monk of Sherborne, Stephen joined the abbey of Molesme near Dijon.
- A few years after, and probably in response to, the foundation of the abbey, this church became an Augustinian priory.
- After his official welcome, both at the old abbey and the cathedral, he received the freedom of the city at the Town Hall.
- He gained greater freedom in 1867 when the monastery was made an abbey and he was appointed abbot as well as a local bishop.
- He has traveled around the world recruiting for his abbey 's Catholic seminary.
- The abbey was founded in 1132 and monks lived in it for 400 years until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
- The abbey and college are also Ryedale's second largest employer and trustees are asking planners to consider the benefits to the local economy.
- Some of the monks leave the abbey to serve mass, speak at other religious communities, and to collect materials for the workshops.
- The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
- William was crowned by Archbishop Ealdred on Christmas Day, in Edward's new abbey cathedral at Westminster.
- He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
- Internally the decoration is of a type and standard more usually encountered in abbeys and cathedrals.
- Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors.
- Our cathedrals and abbeys are better looked after than ever.
- Whether they were to serve the purposes of missionaries, monks, or emperors these manuscripts were mostly produced in the scriptoria or cloisters of abbeys and monasteries.
- It has a long and glorious history - the earliest chandeliers date to before the Reformation, when they could be found in the cavernous interiors of medieval churches and abbeys across Europe.
- He pointed to the space between the two towers of the abbey church.
- Inside the abbey people sat quietly in the choir stalls or on chairs in front of lit candles, absorbed in prayer or contemplation.