The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

Absalon died at Sorø Abbey on March 21, 1201, 73 years old, with his last will granting his personal holdings to the Abbey, apart from Fjenneslev which went to Esbern Snarre.

* 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.

The celebration and many other events are now run by the Arbroath Abbey Timethemes a local charity, and tells the story of the events which led up to the signing.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

The " Jerusalem Chamber ” is a replica of the room in Westminster Abbey in which work on the King James Version of the Bible was conducted, and it displays a collection of rare Bibles.

It is named after the village of Mayo, which is now generally known as Mayo Abbey.

About four miles from Shrewsbury and close by Haughmond Abbey is " Queen Eleanor's Bower ", the remains of a triangular castle which is believed to have been one of her prisons.

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* The Easter Rising is discussed in the television series Downton Abbey, which is set in an English country estate during the 1910s.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

things, to the construction of a large wall and gate surrounding the Abbey ( for instance, the Great Gatehouse, the " Abbey Gateway ", which is the only surviving monastic building other than the Abbey Church, dates from 1365 ).

In 1877, in response to a public petition, Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough and Cathedral status to the former Abbey Church.

Hatfield is mentioned in the Domesday Book as the property of the Abbey of Ely, and unusually, the original census data which compilers of Domesday used still survives, giving us slightly more information than got into the final Domesday record.

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.

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.

The library at the Abbey is one of the richest medieval libraries in the world.

The Abbey library of Saint Gall is recognized as one of the richest medieval libraries in the world.

Within a short time, the Memleben Abbey had become one of the richest and most influential of the Imperial abbeys.

St Augustine's Abbey, the 14th richest in England at the time, was surrendered to the Crown, and its church and cloister were levelled.

In 1086, when Domesday Book was commissioned, Glastonbury Abbey was the richest monastery in the country.

In England, the Bridgittine monastery of Syon Abbey at Isleworth, Middlesex, was founded and royally endowed by Henry V of England in 1415, and became one of the richest, most fashionable, and influential religious communities of women in the country until its Dissolution under King Henry VIII.

By the 15th century, it had been completely re-modelled and had become the second richest and most powerful-as well as one of the grandest-Cistercian Abbeys in England, behind Fountains Abbey.

When Neath Abbey ( now a magnificent ruin ) was founded in 1129, it was the richest of all Welsh monasteries, and in writings of the sixteenth century was described as the ' fairest Abbey of all Wales '.

The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds was once among the richest Benedictine monasteries in England.

Tarrant Abbey Farm was in medieval times the site of Tarrant Abbey, founded in the 12th century by Ralph de Kahaines ( of nearby Tarrant Keyneston ) as a Cistercian nunnery, later supposedly the richest in England.