Exempel på abbey

• We glimpsed the ruined abbey from the windows of the train.

• The abbey was completely rebuilt in 1503 after it had been destroyed by fire.

• The town's fame rests on its beautiful 14th-century abbey.

• The abbey was recently restored after decades of disuse.

• We walked through the ruins of the abbey.

• Apparently, the abbey had suffered from the loss of seasonal pastures, a recurring but disastrous phenomenon.

• The cry went up among the abbey party that the mayor intended to remove the sanctuary men.

• The abbey was to achieve a much clearer victory in 1120.

• Some bishops accumulated the revenues from six large abbeys.

• From the mid-fourteenth century the abbey's manors had been farmed out wholesale including demesne, rent roll and court perquisites.

• The first three houses were abbeys, the last a priory.

• Most of the original windows of the abbey have been filled with masonry, so lighting conditions in the interior can be difficult.

• There are a number of possible reasons for the abbey's surprising absence from most religious histories of the period.

• In my view, a comparison with the creation of abbeys is inappropriate.

• While the abbey could thus expect to come under the gaze of the political nation, it also exerted a more direct influence over the locality.

• Commercial life was also stimulated by the abbey.

• Stevens took the opportunity to complain of the abbey's alleged transgressions.

• That the abbey did not accept this offer is a clear indication of its long-term priorities regarding policy.

• They targeted the abbey because the saint's jurisdiction adjoined their minster and presumably in the hope of its patronage.

• The abbeys were not reserved for the clergy, they were distributed among the nobility, to women and even to children as additional sources of income.