Abbeys and Priories in England and Wales |
Common terms and phrases
abbey church abbey's abbots Anglican apsidal arcade architect architectural Augustinian canons Augustinian priory Augustus Pugin bays Benedictine abbey Benedictine nuns built canons regular Carmelite Carthusian cathedral Catholic cell central tower chapter house choir limb Cistercian Cistercian abbey clerestorey cloister College convents cruciform Decorated Dissolution domestic buildings Dominican friary doorway dormitory Early English early Gothic east window eastern limb England feature fifteenth century foundation founded Fountains Abbey fourteenth century Franciscan friary Gloucester important lady chapel lancets later lay brothers mansion mediaeval modern monasteries monastic monastic buildings monastic churches monasticism monks nave north aisle northern numbers nunneries original parish church parochial period Perpendicular period Premonstratensian presbytery Pugin refectory religious houses Romanesque ruins sanctuary secular side south transept southern splendid style suppression survives Tewkesbury Tewkesbury Abbey thirteenth century tracery transept triforium twelfth century unaisled vaulted Victorian Wales wall west front western range western tower Yorkshire