This red sandstone-clad building, with its distinctive ' wave-shaped ' organic roof, planted with sedum, houses displays on the history of the Abbey and some of the best surviving stonework and other relics.

Research in the 20th century has focused on dating the manuscripts ( 19th-century scholars tended to date them older ); locating where the manuscripts were created — there were seven major scriptoria from which they originate: Winchester, Exeter, Worcester, Abingdon, Durham, and two Canterbury houses, Christ Church and St. Augustine's Abbey ; and identifying the regional dialects used: Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish, West Saxon ( the last being the main dialect ).

Westminster Abbey houses a white marble tablet in memory of Young bearing the epitaph by Hudson Gurney:

Fountains Abbey along with other English Cistertion houses was told to break off any contact with the mother house of Citeaux, which supported a rival pope.

In Abbey Street opposite the CBS secondary school is a building which now houses Roscommon County Library was built in 1783 as an Infirmary.

Very few English houses had been founded later than the end of the 13th century ; the most recent foundation of those suppressed being the Bridgettine nunnery of Syon Abbey founded in 1415.

Two houses, Norton Priory in Cheshire, and Hexham Abbey in Northumberland, attempted to resist the commissioners by force ; actions which Henry interpreted as treason, resulting in his writing personally to demand the summary brutal punishment of those responsible.

Westminster Abbey, which had been retained as a cathedral, reverted to being a monastery ; while the communities of the Bridgettine nuns and of the Observant Franciscans, which had gone into exile in the reign of Henry VIII, were able to return to their former houses at Syon and Greenwich respectively.

The Cluniac order is notable for being organised entirely on this obedientiary principle, with a single abbot at the Abbey of Cluny, and all other houses dependent priories.

These included not only abbots from monastic houses inside his province, such as Æthelsige as abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, but also Baldwin as Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds and Thurstan as Abbot of Ely.

The Abbey is now publicly owned, by Nottingham City Council, and houses a museum containing Byron memorabilia.

Rievaulx Abbey became one of the greatest and wealthiest in England, with 140 monks and many more lay brothers, receiving grants of land totalling 6, 000 acres ( 24 km² ) and establishing daughter houses in England and Scotland.

Fenland monastic houses include the so-called Fen Five ( Ely Cathedral Priory, Thorney Abbey, Croyland Abbey, Ramsey Abbey and Peterborough Abbey ) as well as Spalding Abbey.

The most notable sight in Hemiksem is the 13th century St. Bernard's Abbey, which now houses the town hall and police headquarters, after having undergone extensive renovations in the past decade.

Richard was also active in using his legatine powers to interfere in monastic affairs, deposing the abbot of Peterborough Abbey in 1175 and threatening to visit other monastic houses that were exempt from episcopal interference in order to regulate the monastic affairs.

The square was originally laid out in 1630 when the 4th Earl of Bedford, Francis Russell, commissioned Inigo Jones to design and build a church and three terraces of fine houses around the site of a former walled garden belonging to Westminster Abbey.

The municipality houses Brouwerij de Achelse Kluis in the Trappist Abbey of Achel, one of the 7 Trappist breweries.

Under Henry VIII the great religious houses were dissolved, 1536 – 41 ; in Co. Wexford this included Glascarrig Priory, Clonmines Priory, Tintern Abbey, and Dunbrody Abbey.

The Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen (), on the other side of the mountain, houses priests who say perpetual Masses for the repose of the fallen of the Spanish Civil War and later wars and peacekeeping missions fought by the Royal Spanish Army.

A latticed window in Lacock Abbey, England, photographed by William Fox Talbot in 1835.

* August – H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in England.

Talbot was the only child of William Davenport Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, and of Lady Elisabeth Fox Strangways, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester.

Although Fox had wanted to be buried near his home in Chertsey, his funeral took place in Westminster Abbey on 10 October 1806, the anniversary of his initial election for Westminster in 1780.

John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford kept a bust of Fox in his pantheon of Whig grandees at Woburn Abbey and erected a statue of him in Bloomsbury Square.

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.

The Trust market the abbey and village together as Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village.

* Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village information at the National Trust

* Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village information at the National Trust

In the late 18th century, an Iron Foundry was opened near the Abbey ruins by a company owned by the Price, Fox and Tregelles families.

He died on 6 June 1820, and was buried in Westminster Abbey close to the tombs of Pitt and Fox.

* August-H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, England.

The King sits in the Star Chamber and receives the Archbishop of Canterbury William Warham, Richard Fox, the Bishop of Westminster and clerics associated with Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral as well as the Mayor of London

One of his daughters from first marriage was Elizabeth Fox ( circa 1655 – Tunbridge Wells, 28 February 1681 ), married in Westminster Abbey on 27 December 1673 to Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis ( 1655 – 29 April 1698 ).

That same year on 27 December on Westminster Abbey he married Elizabeth Fox ( circa 1655 – 28 February 1681 in Tunbridge Wells ), daughter of Sir Stephen Fox and his first wife Elizabeth Whittle ; their son Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis later succeeded as 4th Baron Cornwallis.

As Felix Summerly, he also wrote a series of children's books, including A book of stories from The home treasury ; A hand-book for the architecture, sculpture, tombs, and decorations of Westminster Abbey ( 1859 ); An Alphabet of Quadrupeds ( 1844 ); and The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox ( illustrated with twenty-four coloured pictures by Aldert van Everdingen ) ( 1846 ).

Smaller centers in the district include the towns of Gull Lake, Leader, Cabri, Eastend and Burstall ; and the villages of Frontier, Fox Valley, Tompkins, Abbey, Webb and Consul.

Westmacott also sculpted the memorials to Pitt the Younger, Spencer Perceval, Charles James Fox and Joseph Addison in Westminster Abbey ; and those to Sir Ralph Abercromby, Lord Collingwood and Generals Pakenham and Gibbs in St Paul's Cathedral.

Talbot also took a keen interest in the project, encouraging his architects to borrow elements from Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire ( ancestral home of the Talbots and home to his cousin William Henry Fox Talbot ) and Melbury House in Dorset ( home of his mother's family, the Fox-Strangeways, Earls of Ilchester ).

Talbot also took a keen interest in the project, encouraging his architects to borrow elements from Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire ( ancestral home of the Talbots and home to his cousin William Henry Fox Talbot ) and Melbury House in Dorset ( home of his mother's family, the Fox-Strangways, Earls of Ilchester ).

He also trained with Valentin Streltsov of Toronto, Ontario, Nicholas Papas in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Father Damian Higgins at The Sisters of Saint Basil Monastery, Fox Chase, Pennsylvania, Xenia Pokrovshy at Saint Tikhon's Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania and at the Iconography Institute at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon, where he studied with Charles Rohrbacher of Juneau, Alaska.

The Fox family, who were based at Neath Abbey, but who were scouring ironstone further up the valley, agreed to construct a new feeder in 1807 to mitigate the problem.