The centre of the old town is the huge Market Place, the largest in Germany ( 10, 000 square metres ), surrounded by elegant buildings with styles ranging from 14th-century North German Gothic to 19th-century Romanesque revival.

Adjacent to the hill, at the foot of the village's High Street, is the old Guildhall with a 14th-century undercroft.

" It was rebuilt in stone in the 12th-and 14th-century styles between 1818 and 1824, when some of the old details were re-used ".

In the centre of the old town there is the three-aisled pilgrimage church of the Assumption of the Virgin, originally a Gothic church with remnants of 14th-century frescos on its exterior, but which was extensively changed in the 17th century in the Baroque style.

The distinct rules of their order with regard to fasting are numerous, but not more severe than those of similar congregations, though much more so than is required by the old Benedictine rule.

When he was nine years old Muralitharan was sent to St. Anthony's College, Kandy, a private school run by Benedictine monks.

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houses, from east to west, and the new refectory ( 12 ), which, with the increase of the inmates of the house, superseded it, stretching, as is usual in Cistercian houses, from north to south.

For instance, when his former tutor, General De Grunne, in his old age, entered the Benedictine monastery of Maredsous, Belgium, King Albert wrote a letter to him, in which he spoke of the joy of giving oneself to God.

Local residents often call it " the abbey ", although the present cathedral represents only the church of the old Benedictine abbey.

Hemer was first mentioned in 1072 by its old name Hademare in a document of bishop Anno II of Cologne, granting lands to the newly founded Benedictine Grafschaft Abbey, including St. Vitus ' church and two farms, the later Haus Hemer and the Hedhof.

The main sights of Engelberg are: Mount Titlis, Mount " Hahnen ", Engelberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in the Swiss Congregation, the museum of the valley, the hotel Europäischer Hof, a number of old chapels.

The nearby Priory of St Mary Magdalene of Lund, a ruined former Cluniac ( later Benedictine ) house, is commonly known as Monk Bretton Priory although it actually lies outside the modern village in what is today called Lundwood and close to the old hamlet of Littleworth.

The priory house ( ruin in 1965 ) was built from the stone of the old Benedictine Priory.

The old cathedral became a Benedictine abbey, which passed into the hands of the regular canons of Lateran.

As he was small of stature and sickly his father destined him for the cloister, and, when he was ten years old, his father placed him at the nearby Benedictine monastery in Fulda to be educated as a monk.

Castres grew up round the Benedictine abbey of Saint Benoît, which is believed to have been founded in AD 647, possibly on the site of an old Roman fort ( castrum ).

The Romanesque tower beside it ( Tour Saint Benoît ) is the only survival of the old Benedictine abbey.

The town is also known for Vlierbeek abbey, an old Benedictine Abbey built in 1125.

At sixteen years old he entered the Benedictine abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.

This new cathedral was to take over the functions of two churches: the old cathedral and St. Alban's, which was the largest church in the area, belonging to a Benedictine abbey and serving as the burial ground for the bishops and other nobles, including Fastrada, a spouse of Charlemagne.

In 1940, the Benedictine Sisters, being in financial hardship, sold a part of the property to the Franciscans, the old boundary wall was moved at this time to make the division.

He brought the area between the old Roman walls and the Rhine within the city fortifications ; and built new churches to Saint Martin of Tours within this area and to Saint Andrew just outside the northern city wall and a Benedictine monastery dedicated to St Pantaleon to the south-west of the city.

In direct proximity to the old parish church of the riverside community Podskalí, St. Cosmas and Damian, in the territory of the Vyšehrad cathedral he settled with the agreement of the Pope Clemens VI on 22 November 1347, an order of Benedictine monks who adhered to the old Slavic liturgy.

In 1993 Ettal re-founded the former Wechselburg Abbey in Saxony, an old monastery of the Augustinian Canons, as a Benedictine priory.

There is also a permanent exhibition of church artefacts housed in the old Benedictine church from the 12th century.

The Nethercross from the first abbey can be seen today in the old graveyard.

Between the abbey and the river he built a palace, thereby guaranteeing that the seat of Government would be fixed at Westminster, and inevitably drawing power and wealth west out of the old City of London.

Part of the old abbey church continued in use at that time and some parts of the abbey infrastructure still remain to this day.

Many of the oldest surviving buildings in the town, including the Tribunal, George Hotel and Pilgrims ' Inn and the Somerset Rural Life Museum, which is based in an old tithe barn, are associated with the abbey.

The old abbey buildings of the same foundation are now used as the hospital.

In Norman times a substantial, new stone abbey, primarily designed as a convent, was built on the old Anglo-Saxon foundation ( circa 1130 to 1140 AD ) by Henry Blois, Bishop of Winchester and Abbot of Glastonbury.

* The rural communes contain numerous old farms, including Het Neerhof, a 13th-century building that belonged to the abbey of Forest.

* An 11th-century Romanesque tower and crypt are all that remain of the old abbey of St Trudo.

Near Rochefort are the famous red marble quarries of St Remy, and the old Trappist abbey of that name is now a Trappist seminary famous for brewing dark and sweet beers, especially the extremely popular Rochefort 10, whose deep dark-brown color and rich, fruity palate inspire a cult following.

In addition to its steel factories, Seraing counts a famous crystal manufacture at Val Saint Lambert, which has been operating on the site of an old Cistercian abbey since 1826.

The centre of the line, where it crossed the main route north to Rome ( Highway 6 ) which followed the Liri Valley, was anchored around the mountains behind the town of Cassino including Monte Cassino, on which was situated an old abbey that dominated the entrance to the Liri Valley ( a main route to Rome ), and Monte Cairo which gave the defenders clear observation of potential attackers advancing towards the mouth of the Liri valley.

The old refectory pulpit is still visible across the road from the church and a single wall of an abbey building, now an integral part of another building, remains.

Sherborne is famous for its historic buildings, including its abbey, a manor house, its famous independent schools, and two castles ( the ' old castle ' ruins of a 12th century fortified palace, and a ' new ' 16th century mansion, known as Sherborne Castle, built by Sir Walter Raleigh ).

Much of the old town, including the abbey and many medieval and Georgian buildings, is built from the distinctive ochre-coloured ham stone.

The school was refounded in 1550 as King Edward's public school, using some of the old abbey buildings, though it is now known simply as Sherborne School.

However, the town is generally considered as the built-up area to the immediate east and west of the M5 at junction 9, with the town centre, abbey and old town situated to the west.

Being a fellow monk of the same abbey, William almost certainly obtained his account directly from people who knew Eilmer himself when he was an old man.

It had been thought that the old abbey had been completely demolished ; however, following renovations after World War II traces of the old abbey were found at lower levels of the existing walls.