That was the day that Pierre had told Warren about the Abbey of Solesmes.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

After becoming a monk at the monastery at Winchester, he was appointed Abbot of Tavistock Abbey in around 1027.

Ealdred was a monk in the cathedral chapter at Winchester Cathedral before becoming abbot of Tavistock Abbey about 1027, an office he held until about 1043.

That same year, as Ealdred was returning to England he met Sweyn, a son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and probably absolved Sweyn for having abducted the abbess of Leominster Abbey in 1046.

Sybilla died in unrecorded circumstances at Eilean nam Ban ( Kenmore on Loch Tay ) in July, 1122 and was buried at Dunfermline Abbey.

He died there in 1249 and was buried at Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire.

Joan died in Essex in 1238, and was buried at Tarant Crawford Abbey in Dorset.

He was buried in Dunfermline Abbey.

He died in 1201, and was interred at Sorø Abbey.

Absalon was interred at Sorø Abbey, and was succeeded as Archbishop of Lund by Anders Sunesen.

He was noted for his piety and austerity, and rose to become abbot of Bath Abbey.

After his mother ’ s early death, Ansgar was brought up in Corbie Abbey, and made rapid progress in his education.

A monument to Phillip in Bath Abbey Church was unveiled in 1937.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

On Christmas Day 1950, the Stone of Destiny was stolen from Westminster Abbey.

In 2005 The Arbroath Abbey campaign was launched.

The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.

The upper storey features a scale model of the Abbey complex, a computer-generated ' fly-through ' reconstruction of the church as it was when complete, and a viewing gallery with excellent views of the ruins.

An archaeological investigation of the site of the visitors ' centre before building started revealed the foundations of the medieval precinct wall, with a gateway, and stonework discarded during manufacture, showing that the area was the site of the masons ' yard while the Abbey was being built.

Andrewes was born in 1555 near All Hallows, Barking, by the Tower of London-originally a dependency of Barking Abbey in Barking, Essex, of an ancient Suffolk family later domiciled at Chichester Hall, Rawreth ; his father, Thomas, was master of Trinity House.

It is generally believed that Nicholas Breakspear was born at Breakspear Farm in the parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and received his early education at the Abbey School, St Albans ( St Albans School ).

Edward was born on 2 November 1470 in Westminster Abbey.

* Richard of York ( 6 October 1476 – 1 January 1477 ); born at Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire ; died at Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, where he was buried.

In 1536 his first son, Thomas ( later 4th Duke of Norfolk ), was born, Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery and treason, and the Duke of Richmond died at the age of 17 and was buried at one of the Howard homes, Thetford Abbey.

He was born at Waltham Abbey, Essex in 1900 where his father was a major in the Royal Artillery and at the time the assistant superintendent of the gunpowder factory there.

: John of Cornwall ( 31 January 1232 – 22 September 1233 ), born and died at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, buried at Reading Abbey

: Isabella of Cornwall ( 9 September 1233 – 10 October 1234 ), born and died at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, buried at Reading Abbey

Aldhelm () ( c. 639 – 25 May 709 ), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature, was born before the middle of the 7th century.

Owen was born at Westminster Abbey in 1432, when the Dowager Queen was visiting her son Henry VI, her water broke prematurely and she was forced to seek the help of the monks at Westminster Abbey.

Arguably the most celebrated and notorious environmentalist author of the twentieth century, Edward Abbey ( 1927 – 1989 ), was born at the Indiana hospital and raised in Indiana and near the Indiana County towns and villages of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Tanoma, and Home, Pennsylvania.

He was born in Keyford, which is now part of Frome, Somerset in 1840, educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and, at the age of 16, became an apprentice at Messrs Price and Fox at the Neath Abbey Iron Works.

He was born at Iford Manor, Wiltshire, and educated at Hyde Abbey School, Winchester before entering the University of Oxford in 1797, becoming successively student and tutor of Christ Church.

Lord North was born in London on 13 April 1732, at the family house at Albemarle Street, just off Piccadilly, though he spent much of his youth at Wroxton Abbey in Oxfordshire.

Freeman was born at Metchley Abbey in Harborne, now a suburb of Birmingham.

Daughters Maria Cäcilia ( born 1674 ) and Anna Magdalena ( 1677 – 1742 ) became nuns at Santa Clara, Merano, and the Nonnberg Abbey, respectively.

John Oxley was born in 1783 at Kirkham Abbey near Westow in Yorkshire, UK.

Among the friends he made in England was Tennyson, and Lord Leigh, being aware that Parkes had been born at Stoneleigh, invited him to stay at Stoneleigh Abbey.

The first Stewart King of Scotland and son of Marjorie Bruce and Walter Stewart, Robert II, is believed to have been born in the Abbey.

Chris Cromby and Gemma Abbey ( born 1982 ) met in 1995 at Liverpool's Starlight Stage School and toured Liverpool's pubs and clubs with the academy's kids ' roadshow.

Gothic sculpture was born in France in 1144 with the renovation of the Abbey Church of S. Denis and spread throughout Europe, by the 13th century it had become the international style, replacing Romanesque.

Thomas Gann was born in Murrisk Abbey, County Mayo, Ireland, the son of William Gann of Whitstable, and Rose Garvey of Murrisk Abbey.