Abbeys: An Introduction to the Religious Houses of England and WalesDept of environment. |
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30 METRES Fig Abbey abbot aisleless aisles Alban's altar apse arcade Augustinian barn bays Benedictine black monks Byland Byland Abbey C+ C+ C+ Canterbury Carthusian Castle Acre Priory cathedral-monastery cellar cellarer's range chambers chapter house Cistercian claustral buildings cloister cloister alleys Cluniac convent Croxden day stairs doorway dorter dorter range Durham early Cistercian Easby east end eastern arm England and Wales examples farmery foundation Fountains Abbey Fountains Fig fourteenth century frater range friars gatehouse Gilbertine Grandmontine ground floor guests hall Jervaulx Kirkstall kitchen Lady Chapel lay brethren lodging London Charterhouse mediaeval monasteries monastic monasticism Monk Bretton nave Norman Norwich nunneries nuns obedientiaries Orders outer court parish parlour passage placed PLATE precinct Premonstratensian presbytery Priory quire reredorter Rievaulx Rievaulx Abbey sacristy screens served side slype Thetford Fig Thornton Thornton Abbey Tintern tower transept twelfth century undercroft usually warming house west end western whilst Whitby