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Cllr Michael Abbey asked if the cost of half a million was recoupable or would the council have to bear the brunt of the entire cost.
He is a past pupil of Gortnor Abbey Convent and Anthony is now studying at GMIT Galway.
In third place is Fountains Abbey, the World Heritage Site near Ripon in North Yorkshire.
And Rodney, a wine waiter at Woburn Abbey, feared she was about to end it because of his cheating.
The Mayo Abbey and Brize region has lost a kindly gentleman with the passing of Sonny Gibbons.
The nubile young lead, Adela, is played with convincing adolescent frustration by Isabel Claffey in her Abbey debut.
Thereafter Abbey should have a business as clean as a whistle, enabling it to focus on its personal financial services side.
Aspiring student designers wowed the audience with their creations at a spectacular fashion show in Selby Abbey.
Abbey skipped up to the house, a silver bit and four coppers jingling in her apron pocket.
There will also be a mix of office activities and general work related to the Abbey Grounds.
It hit Abbey squarely on the face and she instantly had water streaming down her face.
Two mansions in Jacobean style also survive from that time, St Nicholas Abbey and Drax Hall.
This medieval market town, now an affluent commuter adjunct to Newcastle, is worth a visit, if only to see the striking Hexham Abbey.
The photo over the Minster reminded me of Remembrance Day, when I flew the lone Spitfire over Westminster Abbey.
In recent years several sites have been examined as a possible alternative home for the Abbey.
We watched as they came past, and then took the shortcut home, up through the sheep field to the Abbey.
Boyle wasted no time making his mark, scything through a static Abbey defence from the throw-in to register a great score.
An Abbey National spokeswoman told me unequivocally that the story was wholly untrue.
Within the abbey, some monks had particular jobs to do and specific titles, such as the cellarer.
Abbey took her time in the shower and used her favorite scented body wash.
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As I get closer, there's a faint gleam behind the stained-glass windows of the 13th-century abbey.
A few years after, and probably in response to, the foundation of the abbey, this church became an Augustinian priory.
Amongst monasteries a priory was generally a smaller foundation than an abbey and was in many cases a monastery of monks subordinate to an abbey.
On one of our last days we found ourselves in a church we'd never heard of, the abbey of Mozac near Clermont-Ferrand.
He wraps her in a sheet like a corpse and carries her body to the abandoned abbey near the manor.
A native and monk of Sherborne, Stephen joined the abbey of Molesme near Dijon.
The route between Richmond and Easby Abbey also has improved access for less able-bodied people after the council's contractors erected kissing gates at either end.
Edgar, first King of All England, was crowned on Whit Sunday by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Saxon abbey on the site of the present Bath Abbey.
A few miles along the river, continue past the ruins of a twelfth century abbey, and over an old stone bridge.
The agreement of English Heritage would also be needed for the site around the abbey to be used again for staging the plays.
One person who presented his ideas on the longitude was Jacques Graindorge, the prior of a Benedictine abbey in Fontenay near Caen.
The abbey hath belonging to it temporally and spiritually plowlands and granges.
His writings state the abbey founded a large farmstead, or grange, and a water mill 20 miles away near Wharram Percy, south of Malton.
Northanger Abbey, after all, parodies the tropes and excesses of sentimental Gothic novels.
It is the most animated this Downton Abbey fan has ever seen Lady Grantham.
Although a railway line from Bolton Abbey to the village would be a long-term plan requiring many millions of pounds of investment, hope is high on the agenda.
Visiting the abbey at Monte Cassino, Morris removed his abbatial cross as a sign of humility.
With all the armed bands of various factions roving the land these days, it was a miracle that they had made it back to the abbey.
The Maundy Service, which is held annually at a cathedral or abbey, dates back to before the Middle Ages.
Inside the abbey people sat quietly in the choir stalls or on chairs in front of lit candles, absorbed in prayer or contemplation.
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Tucked away in a courtyard of 15 th-century Cerne Abbey, in Dorset, Cerne Abbey Cottage is all leaded windows, mellow masonry and old-world loveliness.
Gone was Friday's bright sunshine, replaced by cloud and a keen wind that made hardy souls of those camped out overnight outside Westminster Abbey or along The Mall.
In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen defends the novel against critics who dismiss it as frivolous and feminine.
Buses, vans, and cars sounded their horns, gun salutes rang out, the bells of Westminster Abbey pealed, and everyone cheered.
The main visible evidence of the abbey is a vaulted undercroft below the Great Hall.
Monks were brought to the abbey from Saint Giles, thus it operated as a succursal church of the French monastery.
The abbey and college are also Ryedale's second largest employer and trustees are asking planners to consider the benefits to the local economy.
The monk in charge of an abbey was the abbot, elected for life by the brethren.
You'll see twin onion domes rising in the distance long before you arrive at this massive abbey standing in the middle of nowhere.
When established in the tenth century by the Benedictines, the abbey was an island refuge surrounded by Rhone marsh lands.
There were signs of an assault in the damaged wooden palisade, but the abbey itself appeared unharmed.
Most of the infrastructure is completed, including the framework for the spire on the abbey tower.
The writings specify an abbey that has lain unused for a century, and that is what this is.
Before it was a cathedral, back in medieval times, it was an abbey, Gerrie explains.
Large monasteries were known as abbeys, whilst smaller ones were called priories and were often set up near an abbey.
Announcing his retirement at this week's Christmas concert at Selby Abbey, he went out not with a whimper but a bang, and a departing salvo aimed at New Labour.
The provision of a model would give a better idea of the size and layout of the abbey and its precinct.
The most long-lasting result was the invention of Carolingian miniscule, developed at abbey of Corbie.
He was knighted, given the estates of the abbey of Wilton, and appointed a gentleman of the bedchamber.
After his official welcome, both at the old abbey and the cathedral, he received the freedom of the city at the Town Hall.
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While it was mostly in ruins, a tall tower that looked more like it belonged on a castle than an abbey rose imperiously over the grounds.
The abbey buildings, huddled round the squat tower of the church, stood out sharp and clear against the pale outcrops of Dun-I hill.
Blond, Brown, Tripel or Christmas, the abbey beers of Tongerlo are all beers of top fermentation.
I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear.
The annual service is held at a different abbey or cathedral in the UK every year.
He gained greater freedom in 1867 when the monastery was made an abbey and he was appointed abbot as well as a local bishop.
There is no finer example of the medieval reuse of Roman spolia than in the abbey church at Hexham in Northumberland.
The pay and display machines were scrapped following the opening of a new car park further away on the south side of the abbey.
Some buildings charge admission but the ruins of the abbey, next to the parish church, are free.
Two people were injured and a third left in shock yesterday after an axeman ran amok before launching a frenzied attack inside a historic abbey.
About 50 years ago they got so unroyally grubby that abbey authorities would not permit even antiquarians to see them.
A shrewd, hard-headed businessman typical of his age, he speedily restored abbey finances after years of mismanagement.
The Old Bell Hotel, a beautiful hostelry in the heart of the town near to the abbey, serves award-winning French cuisine.
A retired vicar made his sermon at a time when the abbey is waiting for its newly appointed vicar to be inducted at Easter.
The effigy on her tomb in the abbey shows her beauty and is remarkable for its attention to detail.
The ground beneath the abbey was honeycombed with a series of caves that became the scene of countless orgies and unspeakable rituals.
He stole into the abbey in the dead of night, intent on stealing a personal memento of Scotland's greatest king.
Nowhere is this more apparent than Westminster abbey, which he established as the royal necropolis.
Her set and costume design are her usual high standard, though the scenes in the abbey seem a little pinched on the apron of the stage.
William was crowned by Archbishop Ealdred on Christmas Day, in Edward's new abbey cathedral at Westminster.
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The abbey was founded in 1132 and monks lived in it for 400 years until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
Westminster Abbey, awash with 2,311 mourners, was a sea of black with the Yeomen of the Guard and Gentlemen-at-Arms like small crimson islands in their Tudor uniforms.
Millions of former Abbey shareholders now hold Banco Santander shares.
At that time I am going to walk across the zebra crossing at Abbey Road.
Yes, Downton Abbey is back, and with its return to U.S. airwaves comes renewed debate about the British costume drama.
Not Downton Abbey, which is unable to figure out what to do with itself in a post-Matthew crawley world.
St. Joseph's Abbey opened a casket business in 2007, selling high-end handcrafted cypress caskets to help finance its operations.
Last year the club visited the walled garden at Kylemore Abbey.
The first time was to my boarding school alma mater, Portsmouth Abbey, an excellent place run by Benedictine monks.
Up to the time the tomb was closed on 18 November, an estimated 1,250,000 people visited the Abbey, and the site is now one of the most visited war graves in the world.
The King's tremendous support of the abbey of Cluny is discussed thoroughly, as is his foundation and endowment of the Cluniac abbey at Reading.
Reached via email for a comment, Eaton said that the success of Downton Abbey couldn't be reduced down to just one element.
Outside, the crowds had now thronged Parliament Square and banked up alongside the prime real estate bordering the abbey itself.
Audiences could look forward to a glorious summer's evening, with the sun setting behind the abbey.
Some of the monks leave the abbey to serve mass, speak at other religious communities, and to collect materials for the workshops.
Aelred, a friend and follower of St. Bernard, defined holy friendship for the monks of his abbey.
The abbey is a so-called royal peculiar, one of a handful of churches under the Queen's direct control.
His body was later taken to Whitby abbey, where he was venerated as a saint.
The abbey gardens always look fantastic, but to coincide with the tower celebrations the current display looks particularly sprauncy.
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For those with stout boots and stout hearts, there is a spectacular breathtaking, circular-kilometre walk from the abbey through the mountains.
It is thought that she died at Carraigahowley Castle about 1603 and is buried in the ruins of the Cistercian abbey on Clare Island.
He was appointed prebendary of Wilton Abbey in 1535 and received two adjacent benefices.
Like Crazywell Cross, it was used to mark the Monks' Path between Buckfast Abbey and Tavistock Abbey.
The manor of Brent belonged to Buckfast Abbey from the time of the foundation of the abbey in the early 11th century.
His body was found by the monks of Tavistock Abbey, who started to carry it back.
In around 1088 Odo gave the manor, church and lands at Hornsea to the Benedictine St Mary's Abbey, York.
After leaving the moor, the Dart flows southwards past Buckfast Abbey and through the towns of Buckfastleigh, Dartington and Totnes.
They were successful in burying the body in the grounds of the Abbey and inherited the Plymstock estate.
On Good Friday in 1525, Tausen used the pulpit at Antvorskov Abbey Church to proclaim Luther's reforms.
Westminster Abbey and the Law Courts were damaged, while the Chamber of the House of Commons was destroyed.
In 1155, Alice de Romilly donated land for the establishment of Bolton Priory and land at Kilnsey to Fountains Abbey.
His followers broke open a Franciscan Abbey so they could listen to Tausen, who packed the church daily for services.
Former Sky Sports broadcaster Richard Keys is a Coventrian, a product of Whitley Abbey School.
Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, a guidebook to the many tomb monuments and epitaphs of Westminster Abbey.
The Strid walk is very popular and is accessed from the car park at Bolton Abbey.
The House of Commons, which did not have a chamber of its own, sometimes held its debates in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey.
It then enters the city of Derby near Darley Abbey and flows through the centre of the city.
The monarch is usually crowned in Westminster Abbey, normally by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey in London, as was his right owing to his status as a tenant of the Abbey's close.
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The king's body was sent north for reburial, in the reign of his son Alexander, at Dunfermline Abbey, or possibly Iona.
After a race between the monks of Tavistock Abbey and the men of Plymstock, the Abbey won.
After a series of illnesses, he died on the evening of 13 December 1784, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
The Severn is often mentioned in Ellis Peters' Cadfael novels, set in or around Shrewsbury Abbey, beside the river.
In 1969, 145 years after Byron's death, a memorial to him was finally placed in Westminster Abbey.
She appointed two guardians, Richard Abbey and John Sandell, to take care of them.
The ancient town of Barnard Castle, Egglestone Abbey, and Rokeby Park, well known through Sir Walter Scott's poem, are all passed.
In 1896 his bust was unveiled in Westminster Abbey alongside that of his son, Matthew.
From the 1740s onwards they were held, with other Exchequer records, in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey.
Large monastic churches fell into ruin after their institutions were dissolved, although fragments of Waverley Abbey and Newark Priory survive.
There are also some silver dishes and flagons, probably the monastery treasure mentioned in an old chronicle of St Coloumbs Abbey in Yorkshire.
During medieval times, much of the upper dale was sheep country belonging to Middleham Castle and Jervaulx Abbey.
In 1122 a charter granted the church of Burnley to the monks of Pontefract Abbey.
On 6 January he was buried in Westminster Abbey, and Harold was crowned on the same day.
Westminster Abbey was a Benedictine monastery that became a cathedral after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but only for ten years.
Abbey Road is the principal road through central Barrow, whilst Walney Bridge connects Barrow Island to Walney Island.
In the 1170s Gothic architecture was introduced from France at Canterbury and Westminster Abbey.
Pitt's body was buried in Westminster Abbey on 22 February, having lain in state for two days in the Palace of Westminster.
In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
Another commercial station, Abbey FM, ceased broadcasting in February 2009 when it went into administration.
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William and Mary were crowned together at Westminster Abbey on 11 April 1689 by the Bishop of London, Henry Compton.
Mary also expanded the buildings used by the Knights of Windsor in the Lower Ward, using stone from Reading Abbey.
In the Middle Ages the Furness peninsula was controlled by the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of St Mary of Furness, known as Furness Abbey.
In 1189, Richard I granted the rectory of Crosthwaite to the Cistercian order of Fountains Abbey.
Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are set in the city and describe taking the waters, social life, and music recitals.
In 1696 he was appointed Surveyor of Greenwich Naval Hospital, and in 1698 he was appointed Surveyor of Westminster Abbey.
The historic ruins of Furness Abbey and Piel Castle, which are both managed by English Heritage, are also popular tourist destinations.
In 1127 Prince Stephen founded Furness Abbey, granting the abbot most of the land in Furness and giving the rest to a Fleming named Michael.
Young schoolboy William Taswell had bolted from the early morning service in Westminster Abbey.
Edgar of England was crowned king of England in Bath Abbey in 973, in a ceremony that formed the basis of all future English coronations.
His baronetcy passed to Talbot, as did Launde Abbey, which was not swallowed by his debts because of his marriage settlement.
Other priories in medieval Northampton include St James' Abbey, Graye Friers, Blackfriars and Whitefriars.
The arms were subsequently used by the Abbey of St Albans, founded by King Offa of Mercia.
In 1657, he bought the Launde Abbey estate in Leicestershire in 1658 and this was settled on him and his wife.
It was also slowly Christianized by the monks of the nearby Abbey of Stavelot.
In 1177, a Breton stole his relics from Bodmin and gave them to the Abbey of St Meen.
Anne was buried beside her husband and children in the Henry VII Chapel on the South Aisle of Westminster Abbey on 24 August.
The funeral service was taken by the Dean of Westminster Abbey Richard Chenevix Trench.
A public memorial service, attended by the Queen and thousands of mourners, was held on 10 February 1987 in Westminster Abbey.
In 1144, David and Bishop John of Glasgow prompted Kelso Abbey to found a daughter house, Lesmahagow Priory.
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Oswiu called a church council held at Whitby Abbey in 664 in an attempt to resolve this controversy.
Afflicted with gout, she was carried to Westminster Abbey in an open sedan chair, with a low back to permit her train to flow out behind her.
Chad's Cathedral, Erdington Abbey, and Oscott College, all in Birmingham, England.
In 1847 the Commissioners built a pair of lighthouses near Cockersand Abbey to help guide ships into the port.
Waverley Abbey near Farnham, founded in 1128, was the first Cistercian monastery in England.
The monk Ceolfrith was attracted to Ripon from Gilling Abbey, which had recently been depopulated as a result of the plague.
Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected.
The historic core of Westminster is the former Thorney Island on which Westminster Abbey was built.
In about 986, the monks of Ramsey Abbey commissioned Abbo of Fleury to write an account of the saint's life and early cult.
In 1966, three teeth from the collection of relics from France were donated to Douai Abbey.
Bede was aided in writing this book by Albinus, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.
During the Pope's state visit to the United Kingdom in September 2010, the two led a service together at Westminster Abbey.
After his death, Clovis was laid to rest in the Abbey of St Genevieve in Paris.
In the Early Middle Ages, monastery libraries developed, such as the important one at the Abbey of Montecassino in Italy.
There were also shrines at Holywell in Wales which commemorated St Winefride and at Westminster Abbey to Edward the Confessor to name but a few.
The month and day of 2 April are established by a calendar from Lorsch Abbey.
The park incorporates Fountains Abbey, Fountains Hall, and a number of other notable historic features.
The Abbey precinct is managed by English Heritage on behalf of the National Trust.
In 1580 Drake purchased Buckland Abbey, a large manor house near Yelverton in Devon, via intermediaries from Sir Richard Greynvile.
After being sacked from Chelsea on 23 April 1981 Hurst worked as an insurance salesman for Abbey Life.
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Loughborough University, Bisham Abbey and the University of Bath grounds served as training bases prior to this agreement.
Buckland Abbey is now in the care of the National Trust and a number of mementos of his life are displayed there.
The original pits between Abbey and Woodcote were demolished, and new pit facilities were constructed between Woodcote and Copse.
His funeral was at St Albans Abbey, and he is buried at St Botolphs church in Shenley.
Despite this, it was sung as a hymn during the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey.
Also in 1950, the Stone of Destiny was removed from Westminster Abbey by nationalists.
Elizabeth and Philip were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.
The ceremony in Westminster Abbey, with the exception of the anointing and communion, was televised for the first time.
Irish missionaries founded monasteries outside Ireland, such as Iona Abbey, the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland, and Bobbio Abbey in Italy.
In 1113, in perhaps David's first act as Prince of the Cumbrians, he founded Selkirk Abbey for the Tironensian Order.
After his death in 1742, his son William extended his scheme by purchasing the remains of the Abbey and Fountains Hall.
David also continued his predecessor Alexander's patronage of the Augustinians, founding Holyrood Abbey with monks from Merton Priory.
The commission refused to allow Charles's burial at Westminster Abbey, so his body was conveyed to Windsor on the night of 7 February.
It was from Melrose that David established Newbattle Abbey in Midlothian, Kinloss Abbey in Moray, and Holmcultram Abbey in Cumberland.
The scribe added material relating to Peterborough Abbey which is not in other versions.
Balliol was named king by a majority on 17 November 1292 and on 30 November he was crowned King of Scots at Scone Abbey.
Edward Balliol then had himself crowned King of Scots, first at Perth, and then again in September at Scone Abbey.
Walpole's first wife Catherine died on 20 August 1737 and was buried in Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey.
In 1173, Becket's sister Mary was appointed as abbess of Barking Abbey as reparation for the murder of her brother.
The Battle of Britain window in Westminster Abbey was also encouraged by the Air Ministry, Lords Trenchard and Dowding on its committee.
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Plans for the Battle of Britain window in Westminster Abbey were begun during wartime, the committee chaired by Lords Trenchard and Dowding.
The elevation on to Abbey Church Yard has a centre piece of four engaged Corinthian columns with entablatures and pediment.
Many of these houses are the setting for British period dramas, such as Downton Abbey.
Notable examples of Gothic revival architecture are the Houses of Parliament and Fonthill Abbey.
Their leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.
Dundee has one independent school, the High School of Dundee, which was founded in the 13th century by the Abbot and monks of Lindores Abbey.
Many existing buildings such as Woburn Abbey and Kedleston Hall are in this style.
Two thousand tickets were issued, but 3000 men were admitted to the service at Westminster Abbey, where he was buried beside Thomas Telford.
Bath Ales brewery is located in Warmley and Abbey Ales are brewed in the city.
By his own wish he was buried at Malmesbury Abbey, where he had buried his cousins who died at Brunanburh.
The other eastern branch runs underground from Whitechapel to Canary Wharf and Abbey Wood.
He died on 29 November 1530 and was buried at Leicester Abbey, now Abbey Park.
A notable example of steeply pointed lancets being used structurally is the apsidal arcade of Westminster Abbey.
By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects.
In Scotland, Melrose Abbey was a noteworthy example, though much of it is now in ruins.
On 2 December 2016, the 31st anniversary of his death, a floor stone memorial for Larkin was unveiled at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
When she died on 15 February 2001, Jones, in turn, left one million pounds to St Paul's Cathedral, Hexham Abbey, and Durham Cathedral.
In June 2015 it was announced that Larkin would be honoured with a floor stone memorial at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
In 2010 it was announced that Hughes would be commemorated with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Scott was buried in Dryburgh Abbey, where his wife had earlier been interred.
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Tradition says that he was buried within the precinct of the Cistercian Strata Florida Abbey, Ceredigion.
Paul's Cathedral, London, Bath Abbey and the destroyed Benedictine Abbey of Coventry.
The Choir School educates and trains the choirboys who sing for services in the Abbey.
Esther followed Swift to Ireland in 1714, and settled at her old family home, Celbridge Abbey.
Radiohead began work on their second album in 1994, hiring veteran Abbey Road Studios producer John Leckie.
The backdrop of Saint Mary's Abbey at York plays a central role in the Gest as the poor knight who Robin aids owes money to the abbot.
Working conditions at the Abbey were better than at most Victorian factories.
Later in 1965 a memorial to Churchill, cut by the engraver Reynolds Stone, was placed in Westminster Abbey.
For the 1952 event, the original pits between Abbey and Woodcote was abandoned and demolished.
The presence of Scone Abbey, home of the Stone of Destiny where the King of Scots was crowned, enhanced the early importance of the city.
He then gathered followers and went to Peterborough Abbey to be knighted by his uncle Abbot Brand.
David, meanwhile, issued charters to Shrewsbury Abbey in respect to their lands in Lancashire.
Hereward stormed and sacked Peterborough Abbey in company with local men and Sweyn's Danes.
His body is buried in Dunfermline Abbey, while his heart was interred in Melrose Abbey.
Before Cardross became habitable in 1327, Robert I's main residence had been Scone Abbey.
At the end of March 1329 he was staying at Glenluce Abbey and at Monreith, from where St Ninian's cave was visited.
Westminster Abbey, rebuilt in the Romanesque style by King Edward the Confessor, was one of the grandest churches in Europe.
The king's body was carried east from Cardross by a carriage decked in black lawn cloth, with stops recorded at Dunipace and Cambuskenneth Abbey.
In 595, Gregory chose Augustine, who was the prior of the Abbey of St Andrew's in Rome, to head the mission to Kent.
For some time the Abbey had claimed that it possessed a set of coronation regalia that Edward had left for use in all future coronations.
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In accordance with Bruce's written request, the heart was buried at Melrose Abbey in Roxburghshire.
It was reburied in Melrose Abbey in 1998, pursuant to the dying wishes of the King.
Lincluden Abbey and its grounds are now within the Dumfries urban conurbation boundary.
The song 'Old Father Thames' was recorded by Peter Dawson at Abbey Road Studios in 1933 and by Gracie Fields five years later.
He bought the porter's lodge at Westminster Abbey for use as his town house.
After a wedding by proxy in London, the marriage was confirmed in person on 8 August 1503 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh.
This annual event was begun in 1975, in part inspired by the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover.
Waltham Abbey, which had been founded by Harold, later claimed that his body had been buried there secretly.
James's son Charles I was crowned in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, in 1633 with full Anglican rites.
Balfour giving notice for an Address to the Queen praying for a public funeral and a public memorial in Westminster Abbey.
He is commemorated in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, the first professional historian to be so honoured.
Walter and Robert were named as foresters of Exmoor when they witnessed an early 13th century grant to Forde Abbey.
The hall is a Jacobean mansion, built partly with stone from the Abbey ruins.
David, believing his life had been spared through divine intervention, founded Holyrood Abbey on the spot.
Fountains Abbey was founded in 1132 by Benedictine monks who left St Mary's Abbey, York to follow the Cistercian order.
Westminster School and Westminster Abbey Choir School are also in the precincts of the abbey.
On Tuesday April 9, 2002 the ceremonial Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was held in the Abbey.
Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey is a designated World Heritage Site in North Yorkshire, England.
The full achievement is depicted in the form of a large coloured plaster overmantel in the Lifetimes Gallery at Buckland Abbey.
The retelling of such miracles encouraged the pilgrim trade at Glastonbury until the Abbey was dissolved in 1539, during the English Reformation.
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Interior scenes of the British period drama television series Downton Abbey were shot in Stage 2 of the studios.
The school choir sang in services at Westminster Abbey, which appealed to his fondness for ritual.
Flag of Westminster Abbey, featuring the Tudor arms between Tudor Roses above the attributed arms of Edward the Confessor.
In 1991 Gielgud unveiled a memorial stone commemorating Olivier in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.
His cremation was held three days later, and a funeral was held in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in October that year.
On 6 September 1997, the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, was held at the Abbey.
At her funeral on 28 April, the coffin was taken to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by four horses hung with black velvet.
Walking on roads until the outskirts of Fishbourne, then along a track past Quarr Abbey and Ryde Golf Course, then roads into Ryde.
The Covent Garden estate was originally under the control of Westminster Abbey and lay in the parish of St Margaret.
A document from 1200 AD mentions a walled garden owned by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St Peter, Westminster.
These can be seen in the elaborate ritual coronation at the Stone of Scone at Scone Abbey.
By 1200 part of it had been walled off by Westminster Abbey for use as arable land and orchards.
Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side of the Moon between May 1972 and January 1973, with EMI staff engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church.
Richard de Redvers died on 8 September 1107 and was buried in the Abbey of Montebourg in Normandy, of which he was deemed the founder.
With Smith's instruction at Abbey Road, they learned how to use the recording studio to realise their artistic vision.
In 1968, Pink Floyd returned to Abbey Road Studios to record their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets.
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have been held in Westminster Abbey.
Abbey Road received mixed reviews, although the medley met with general acclaim.
British coronations are held in Westminster Abbey, a royal peculiar under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch.
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Abbey musicians such as Henry Purcell were also buried in their place of work.
Carisbrooke Priory was an alien priory, a dependency of Lyre Abbey in Normandy.
Sherborne Abbey, one of the county's largest, is noted for its broad fan vaulting added during an extensive 15th century rebuild.
It was founded as a cathedral in 1075, when the seat of the bishop was moved from Selsey Abbey.
At the beginning of the legal year, the Lord Chancellor officiates at a ceremony in Westminster Abbey in front of all the judges.
Although Let It Be was the Beatles' final album release, it was largely recorded before Abbey Road.
The work has been recorded by Nyman Quintet in the Abbey Road Studios, and has been released on Nyman's record label.
Augustine built a church at his foundation of Sts Peter and Paul Abbey at Canterbury, later renamed St Augustine's Abbey.
As at Tewkesbury Abbey after 1471 battle, Edward IV prepared to order his extraction and probable execution.
A memorial service was held at the Abbey on 10 March 1977, at which the congregation was headed by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Henry VIII restored his authority by establishing the Council of the North in York in the dissolved St Mary's Abbey.
In Westminster Abbey, a stone memorial of Robert Blake, unveiled on 27 February 1945, can be found in the south choir aisle.
Tavistock Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon, is a ruined Benedictine abbey in Tavistock, Devon.
Finnian of Clonard is said to have trained the Twelve Apostles of Ireland at Clonard Abbey.
Only two survived, but in September 2013 a further twenty were transported to Tresco and released in Abbey Woods, near the Abbey Gardens.
On 17 October 2014 a memorial to him was unveiled in Westminster Abbey beside that of his business partner James Watt.
Originally, the barons were charged with bearing a ceremonial canopy over the sovereign during the procession to and from Westminster Abbey.
The captive Henry was murdered on 21 May 1471 in the Tower of London and buried in Chertsey Abbey, extinguishing the House of Lancaster.
In June 2014, an unknown number of baby squirrels have been pictured in the Abbey Gardens, proving the squirrels are successfully breeding.
By order of Queen Anne his body was later exhumed, embalmed and taken to London where he was interred in Westminster Abbey.

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