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 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.

He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.

Noteworthy, too, is St. Mildred's Priory, Isle of Thanet, Kent, built in 1027 on the site of an Abbey founded in 670 by the daughter of the first Christian King of Kent.

The Roman Catholic Abbey of St Mary and St Petroc, formerly belonging to the Canons Regular of the Lateran was built in 1965 next to the already existing seminary.

The first chassis built by Abbey Panels of Coventry was delivered on March 16, 1963.

The car had an aluminum chassis built at Abbey Panels and was originally powered by a 4. 7 liter ( 289ci ) engine.

During their dig they found the remains of a Benedictine chapel that was built in c. 1139 by monks from Glastonbury Abbey, a reliquary, graves and the remains of much earlier Romano-British chapels built of wood with dating evidence suggesting use by Christians before the reign of Constantine the Great.

Its first mention in historical documents in 814 AD suggests there was a church here in the 9th century, most likely built by monks who were associated with the nearby Abbey of Sant ' Antimo.

St Edward the Confessor, the penultimate Saxon monarch of England, built a royal palace on Thorney Island just west of the City of London at about the same time as he built Westminster Abbey ( 1045 – 50 ).

On 17 February 1818, workmen breaking ground on the new parish church to be built on the site of the eastern choir of Dunfermline Abbey uncovered a tomb before the site of the former abbey high altar.

In 1148, Stephen built the Cluniac Faversham Abbey as a resting place for his family.

* Gallus ( 613-648 ) Hermit, the Abbey was built on the traditional site of his cell.

In the west, the " new city " structured around the Abbey of Saint Martin was freed from the control of the City during the 10th century ( an enclosure was built towards 918 ) and became " Châteauneuf ".

Examples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830 – 1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Smith around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the Isles of Scilly, England, where the museum is located.

* Bath Abbey is built in England.

The historic core of Westminster is the former Thorney Island on which Westminster Abbey was built.

The Abbey of Sacromonte was built to monitor and guard the relics of the evangelists of Baetica.

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

* Sligo Abbey is built in Sligo, Ireland.

The Abbey built shops and dwellings on the west side, encroaching upon the sanctuary.

Battle Abbey was built on the site of the battle.

Ealdred became involved with the see of Ramsbury after its bishop Herman got into a dispute with King Edward over the movement of the seat of his bishopric to Malmesbury Abbey.

The construction of the Abbey at Batalha commenced in 1388 and was added to by various Portuguese Kings over these next two centuries.

Tradition asserts that, sometime around 560, he became involved in a quarrel with Saint Finnian of Movilla Abbey over a psalter.

Distrustful of the traditional Benedictine order, he favoured new monastic orders, such as the Augustinians and the Cistercians, and sought to exercise more control over the larger monastic centres of Monte Cassino and Cluny Abbey.

In January 829, Gregory was involved in a dispute with Farfa Abbey over the ownership of local monastic land by the Roman church.

In writing of one miracle associated with Oswald, Bede gives some indication of how Oswald was regarded in conquered lands: years later, when his niece Osthryth moved his bones to Bardney Abbey in Lindsey, its inmates initially refused to accept them, " though they knew him to be a holy man ", because " he was originally of another province, and had reigned over them as a foreign king ", and thus " they retained their ancient aversion to him, even after death ".

In the subsequent century, St. Gall came into conflict with the nearby Bishopric of Constance which had recently acquired jurisdiction over the Abbey of Reichenau on Lake Constance.

Following the disturbances, the Abbey was still the largest religious city-state in Switzerland, with over 77, 000 inhabitants.

A sum was voted for a public monument which was erected over a new grave in Westminster Abbey.

** The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.

The conflict centered over control of Gandersheim Abbey and its estates.

Both the Archbishop of Mainz and the Bishop of Hildesheim claimed authority over the Abbey, including the authority to anoint the Abbey's nuns.

The context of the event was a dispute between Christchurch and St Augustine's Abbey, which took over the local toll in the name of the king.

A genealogy created at Glastonbury Abbey circa 969 gives Edward precedence over Edmund and Æthelred.

Hence, François Rabelais, also of the 16th century, imagines an inscription over the door of his Utopian Abbey of Thélème, " Here enter no hypocrites, bigots ..." slipping in a slighting reference to " Gotz " and " Ostrogotz.

In 1999, the Trappist Koningshoeven Abbey entered into an agreement with Bavaria to take over the daily operations of the monks ' brewery within the 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.

Without the addition of buttresses, bracing arches and anchor irons over the succeeding centuries, it would have suffered the fate of spires on later great ecclesiastical buildings ( such as Malmesbury Abbey ) and fallen down ; instead, Salisbury remains the tallest church spire in the UK.

In 1125 he was elected by the monks of the Abbey at Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, near Vannes, Brittany, to be their abbot, so he turned the Paraclete over to Heloise, his love, who had been in a convent in Argenteuil since taking the veil.

In 1284, with the Cistercian Abbey of Marzan, Philip IV established Villeneuve de Berg, and by the treaty of 10 July 1305 Philip IV of France obliged the bishops of Vivarais to admit the sovereignty of the Kings of France over all their temporal domain.

The Abbey Tower contains the heaviest ring of 8 church bells in the world with a tenor of 46cwt and 5 lbs ( just over 2 and 1 / 4 tons ).

From the start Thamesmead was cut off from Abbey Wood the nearest town, with shopping facilities by a railway line over which a 4 lane bridge was built to overcome in the early 70s.

St. Canute's Church in one form or another has stood on Abbey Hill in Odense () for over 900 years.

Thomas Evans, a land over in Darley Abbey, bought a further in the area around Darley Abbey at a cost of £ 1, 140 (£) and in 1782 built a cotton mill in the village.