Around the age of twelve, his mother retired to an abbey near Saint-Germer-de-Fly ( or Flay ), and Guibert soon followed.

After the death of Louis the Pious ( 840 ) Hincmar supported Charles the Bald, and received from him the abbacies of Nôtre-Dame at Compiègne and Saint-Germer-de-Fly.

In 1794, Lord Beckford visited the Abbey and commented that he found some 300 monks " living in a very splendid manner "!

The large and ornate new Abbey did not remain a monastery for very long.

There is a legend that Henry I of England met an elderly monk at Waltham Abbey, who was in fact a very old Harold.

It was very similar to Jumièges Abbey, which was built at the same time.

:" We can guess that Susan original title of Northanger Abbey, in its first outline, was written very much for family entertainment, addressed to a family audience, like all Jane Austen ’ s juvenile works, with their asides to the reader, and absurd dedications ; some of the juvenilia, we know, were specifically addressed to her brothers Charles and Frank ; all were designed to be circulated and read by a large network of relations.

The thefts are very similar, to the point of occurring on Christmas Day and the stone being recovered from Arbroath Abbey.

There are three very famous royal chapels and one chapel-like Abbey which show the style at its most elaborate-King's College Chapel, Cambridge ; St George's Chapel, Windsor ; Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey and Bath Abbey.

Recumbent marble statue by John Schoerman very similar to another work by Schoerman in Westminster Abbey.

The exciting possibilities afforded by this scenario, as well as the spectacular worship setting of the College's neo-Gothic Chapel, have enabled the College to attract a very high calibre of applicants for its Choral and Parry-Wood Organ Scholarships, and former Organ Scholars include Robert Sharpe ( Director of Music, York Minster ), Christopher Herrick ( International Concert Organist and former Organist, Westminster Abbey ), and David Trendell ( Director of Music, King's College London ), as well as the current Directors of Music at Rugby, Charterhouse, Sherborne, and Latymer Upper Schools.

It was founded by a group of monks from Whitland Abbey, at a time of very fast expansion of the Cistercians, the White Monks.

The Doberan Abbey became very rich due to its economic activities is and had a large estate.

Tongerlo Abbey contains a very old and fine copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.

With the Abbey of Cluny in ruins, the Speyer Cathedral remains the largest Romanesque church to this very day.

The text of the work, preserved in a single badly written and mutilated manuscript ( discovered by Beatus Rhenanus in 1515 in Murbach Abbey in Alsace and now lost ), is very corrupt.

These big companies were often reluctant to make changes to their recording and production processes — for example, EMI was very slow in taking up innovations in multi-track recording and they did not install 8-track recorders in their Abbey Road Studios until the late 1960s, more than a decade after the first commercial 8-track recorders were installed by American independent studios.

The choir's two most recent recordings are " Music from the reign of King James " and " The Feast of Saint Peter the Apostle at Westminster Abbey " which also received very positive reviews.

Agrarian author Wendell Berry claimed that Abbey was regularly criticized by mainstream environmental groups because Abbey often advocated controversial positions that were very different from those which environmentalists were commonly expected to hold.

Luffield Abbey is a village in the very north of Buckinghamshire, England.

During Stephen's reign, Faversham was a very important settlement and even became the capital of England for a short period King John tried to give the church to Simon of Wells in 1201, but the church was owned by the monks of St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury, who appealed to Rome and kept Simon from receiving the church.

The road to Harold's Grange continues southward from Loreto Abbey, past some very old houses, which have been restored in recent years.

He gives, however, numerous charters relating to Westminster Abbey, and also a very complete account of the saints whose tombs were in the abbey church, and especially of Edward the Confessor.

Greig's situation was similar to that of Felicity Jones who played Emma Carter in the series ; Jones, after a period studying at Wadham College, Oxford has moved into large TV parts, such as a starring role in Northanger Abbey.

In order to make the Lincoln chapter house appear similar to the Westminster Chapter House, murals were painted on a special layer over the existing wall, and elsewhere polystyrene replicas of Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and other Abbey monuments were set up.

The interior contains fine fan vaulting by Robert and William Vertue, who designed similar vaulting for the Henry VII chapel, at Westminster Abbey.

While the small town of Altdorf was ruled by the Reichslandvogt ( imperial steward ) of Swabia, the abbey of Weingarten won the status of an " Imperial Abbey " with privileges similar to those of an Imperial Free City.

Designed by the German Richard Cassels circa 1750, it is closer in design to Palladio's concepts than similar Palladian style houses in England, such as Woburn Abbey.

The secondary wings or blocks, each crowned with a cupola, were similar in style to those built by Henry Flitcroft for the Duke of Bedford twenty years later at the far larger Woburn Abbey.

Letters written by Henry Giles, a settler who came to the area in 1840, suggest that he chose the name Fonthill because the area looked similar to the area around Fonthill Abbey in England.

A small river port developed at Stratford, mentioned in the 15th century, to serve the needs of Stratford Abbey and the mills at Stratford, and there is similar evidence in later centuries.

So in Italy the lay Brothers were instituted ; and we find similar attempts at organization at the Abbey of St. Benignus at Dijon, under William of Dijon ( d. 1031 ) and Richard of Verdun ( d. 1046 ), while at Hirschau, Abbot William ( d. 1091 ) gave a special rule to the fratres barbati and exteriores.

Such a dance was described in 1050 by a monk of Tegernsee Abbey in the knightly poem Ruodlieb, wherein similar postures and movements of the Schuhplatter are depicted.

It tells a similar story to the one in the twelfth century manuscript at Winchcombe Abbey, with the following addition: after the murder and secret burial of Saint Kenelm in the Clent Hills, a cow came and miraculously sat at Kenelm's grave, eating nothing all day and returning each night with her udders full.

With these and similar rumors about activities at the Abbey in mind, Benito Mussolini's government demanded that Crowley leave the country in 1923.

Services are held there every Monday and Friday morning, and special events held there include the annual Founders ' Day and two packed carol services, led by the school choir, who still wear black and blue gowns in the same style as worn by undergraduates at Trinity College, Cambridge and similar to those worn by monks at the Abbey in medieval times.

In August 2005, and followed again with more similar events in 2006, Abbey House Gardens hosted what was thought to be the first ' Clothes Optional Day ' at a major inland British tourist attraction.

As completed during the 12th century, the original Cathedral had three aisled bays to the chancel with the bay at the east end shorter, and apsed in a similar way to the original apse at Durham, a transept with single east chapel, and eight bays to the nave as at Durham and Dunfermline Abbey.

Anyone familiar with the monks ' cloisters at Ampleforth Abbey in north Yorkshire will recognize the woodwork and other interior features as similar to the decoration in the Abbey.

The only substantive structure remaining is the entrance archway, the Great West Door to the Abbey Church, though low walls marking the extent of the church and six subsidiary chapels remain.

Other notable buildings are the Royal Hop Pole Hotel in Church Street ( which has recently been converted into a part of the Wetherspoons pub chain with the discovery of a former medieval banqueting hall in the structure ), mentioned in Charles Dickens ' The Pickwick Papers, the Bell Hotel, a large half-timbered structure opposite the Abbey gateway, and the House of the Nodding Gables in the High Street.

The B-listed Inverkeithing ( St Peter's ) Church on Church Street was first built as a wooden Celtic church before being adapted into a Norman stone structure, which was bequeathed by the monks of Dunfermline Abbey in 1139.

Like Fonthill Abbey, the whole structure was intended to imitate one of the older country houses genuinely converted from an old abbey or monastery.

The Holy Brook leaves the main channel of the Kennet at a structure known as Arrowhead near the village of Theale, and flows to the north of the main channel until rejoining the main channel in the centre of Reading, adjacent to the site of Reading Abbey.

The St Ives settlement was developed by the monks of Ramsey Abbey who built the town's first bridge, a wooden structure, in 1107.

Essex Bridge was an arched stone structure with 7 piers, and apparently partly constructed from the ruined masonry of nearby St. Mary ’ s Abbey on the northside.

Unusually, the centre of the village is dominated by the structure of the Old Abbey and graveyard which dates back to Medieval times.