Other sights include the 15th century former castle ( Château vieux ) and the adjacent 15th century Roman Catholic church with fine stained glass and sculptures ; a gothic former Franciscan, then Récollets, monastery with a church and a cloister ornated by 17th century frescoes ; as well as several old houses, among which the heavily decorated Maison Katz stands out.

The great cloister was surrounded by the buildings essentially connected with the daily life of the monks ,-- the church to the south, with the refectory placed as always on the side opposite, the dormitory, raised on a vaulted undercroft, and the chapter-house adjacent, and the lodgings of the cellarer, responsible for providing both monks and guests with food, to the west.

Between 1498 and 1501, James IV constructed a royal palace at Holyrood, adjacent to the abbey cloister.

Notable works of architecture include the Cuxa cloister, with an adjacent Chapter House ; and the Fuentidueña Apse from a chapel in the province of Segovia ( Castilla y León, Spain ).

In 1665 an Egyptian obelisk was found, buried in the garden of the Dominican cloister adjacent to the church.

In the small cloister adjacent to the tribune near the door that leads to the sacristy is a fresco by Bramantino.

In 1646, an apparition of the Virgin Mary launched the church as a Marian sanctuary ; the elegant Baroque belfry and the adjacent cloister date from the 17th century.

* The Church of the Trinitarians ( 1248 ) built in the Gothic style with two parallel naves and the adjacent cloister.

The church is an important example of Romanesque architecture, and the sculptures over the portal, particularly the Last Judgement, and the columns in the adjacent cloister, are considered some of the finest examples of Romanesque sculpture.

This collection and the collection of the Heimatverein ( local history society ) were united in 1963 into the Aventinus Museum, in the cloister of the former Carmelite monastery.

In 1099, Bethlehem was captured by the Crusaders, who fortified it and built a new monastery and cloister on the north side of the Church of the Nativity.

In examining the origins of the monastic cloister, Walter Horn found that " as a manorial entity the Carolingian monastery ... differed little from the fabric of a feudal estate, save that the corporate community of men for whose sustenance this organization was maintained consisted of monks who served God in chant and spent much of their time in reading and writing.

In the event, he did not wait and went instead to Paris and finally became a canon regular of the cloister of St. Rufus monastery near Arles.

Fujian does have a historic monastery called Changlin, and a monastery referred to as a " Shaolin cloister " has existed in Fuqing, Fujian, since the Song Dynasty, but whether these have an actual connection to the Henan monastery or a martial tradition is still unknown.

A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, balneary and infirmary.

Later realizing that he had provoked the king, Dunstan fled to the apparent sanctuary of his cloister, but Eadwig, incited by Æthelgifu, followed him and plundered the monastery.

Thus, for those making this commitment, they are distinguished within the monastic community under the title of choir nuns, as opposed to " lay Sisters ", who are entrusted with the upkeep of the monastery, or even running errands outside the cloister.

Technically, a convent is any home of a community of sisters — or, indeed, of priests and brothers, though this term is rarely used in the U. S. The term " monastery " is often used by communities within the Benedictine family, and " convent " ( when referring to a cloister ) is often used of the monasteries of certain other orders.

The first known use of the word to denote a room was in medieval Christian Europe, when it designated the two rooms in a monastery where clergy, constrained by vow or regulation from speaking otherwise in the cloister, were allowed to converse without disturbing their fellows.

The " inner parlour " was located off the cloister next to the chapter house in the east range of the monastery and was used for necessary conversation between resident members.

Other monastic establishments include the old Franciscan cloister ( 1635 ), Basilian convent ( 1720 – 51, by Giuseppe Fontana III ), the church of the Bridgettine cloister ( 1642, one of the earliest Baroque buildings in the region ) with the wooden two-storey dormitory ( 1630s ) still standing on the grounds, and the 18th-century buildings of the Dominican monastery ( its cathedral was demolished in 1874 ).

The after its use as a monastery ended, the cloister was used as a military barracks, a hospital and a prison.

File: Latran intérieur. jpg | The cloister of the monastery, with a cosmatesque decoration.

Cloister of the monastery of San Paolo fuori le mura The graceful cloister of the monastery was erected between 1220 and 1241.

The cloister area of the complex still functions as a monastery and inhabited by about fifteen Franciscan monks.

The cloister contains a number of murals similar to those at the former monastery of Huejotzingo.

Originally, this church and the cloister next to it were constructed as a monastery by the Dominicans, but the complex was transferred to the Franciscans.

Normally in a medieval Cistercian monastery an infirmary with its own kitchens, chapel and ancillary buildings would have been located east of the main buildings around a second, smaller cloister, but at Netley these seem to be absent.

Cloistered ( or claustral ) life is also another name for the life of a monk or nun in the enclosed religious orders ; the modern English term enclosure is used in contemporary Catholic church law < ref name =" Code of Canon Law "> The Code of Canon Law, Canon 667 ff .< cite > English translation copyright 1983 The Canon Law Society Trust </ cite > to mean cloistered, and cloister is sometimes used as a metonymic synonym for monastery.

There was also a Dance of Death painted in the 1540s on the walls of the cloister of St Paul's Cathedral, London with texts by John Lydgate, which was destroyed in 1549.

The monastic buildings and the cloister were completed first after which construction of the church took place during the period 1638-1641 and in 1646 it was dedicated to San Carlo Borromeo.

On the south side of the cloister ( 5 ) there are the remains of the old refectory, running, as in Benedictine houses, from east to west, and the new refectory ( 12 ), which, with the increase of the inmates of the house, superseded it, stretching, as is usual in Cistercian houses, from north to south.

Between 1404 and 1432 an unknown architect added the north and south ranges to the cloister, which was eventually closed by the western range by John Chapman, 1435 – 38.

Adjacent to the square is the Convent of Carme, a Renaissance cloister which dates to the 16th century.

With the renovations, the castle ended up with a main building and two long projecting wings, one of which is a Renaissance structure built over a cloister.

In 1365, Bishop Adam Houghton and John of Gaunt began to build St Mary's College, a chantry, and Houghton later added the cloister which connects it to the cathedral.

The cloister, which encloses the Well of the Geese ( Font de les Oques ) was completed about 1450.

The open cloister below the Upper Library was enclosed in the 19th century to form the Lower Library, which now houses the bulk of the lending collection.

Most of the refectory ( dining hall ) range to the south of the cloister and the dorter range to the east, which contained the chapter house and dormitory, have yet to be excavated.

The enlarged priory had twin towers at the west end flanking a large double doorway above which was a central rose window ; piped water was provided using lead pipes leading from the cloister, under the church and out to buildings or standpipes to the north or west of the priory.

The earliest use of the octagonal cloister vault within an external housing at the crossing of a cruciform church may be at Acqui Cathedral in Acqui Terme, Italy, which was completed in 1067.

There is evidence that the builders did not originally plan for the dome and decided on the novel shape to accommodate the rectangular crossing bay, which would make an octagonal cloister vault very difficult.

Called domical vaults, cloister vaults, or coved vaults, these are domes which maintain a polygonal shape in their horizontal cross section.

Around the courtyard are the galleries of the main cloister, decorated with frescoes in which scenes from the history of the Redemption are represented.

The only part of it which still survives is the 13th-century cloister, surrounded by graceful twisted columns of inlaid marble.

King Dinis of Portugal ordered the construction of a cloister in Gothic style in the end of the 13th century, which was severely damaged by the 1755 earthquake.

In his own college he completed in 1665 the north side of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's great quadrangle, already begun by his father but abandoned during the Commonwealth ; in 1672, he rebuilt the east side of the Chaplain's quadrangle " with a straight passage under it leading from the cloister into the field ," occupied now by the new Meadow Buildings ; the lodgings of the canon of the third stall in the passage uniting the Tom Quad and Peckwater Quadrangle ( c. 1674 ); a long building joining the Chaplain's quadrangle on the east side in 1677 – 1678 ; and lastly the great Tom Tower gate, begun in June 1681 on the foundation laid by Wolsey and finished in November 1682, to which the bell " great Tom ," after being recast, was transferred from the cathedral in 1683.

Some time after 1648 he quarrelled with his patron and withdrew to a house in the cloister of Notre-Dame de Paris, where he gathered round him on Wednesday evenings those literary assemblies which he called " Mercuriales ".

Horrified by the cruelty and the exactions of his Breton ally, Philip Augustus offered Abbot Jourdain a grant for the construction of a new Gothic-style architectural set which included the addition of the refectory and cloister.

This space, known by the name of ' runners ' and ends in the ' room of the ladder, " from which the well enters the cloister, refectory, kitchen, staircase and upper floor units.

The earliest surviving architecture is the south-east doorway in the nave from the cloister, which has a round arched doorway typical of Romanesque or Norman architecture which was the prevalent architectural style before the adoption of Gothic.