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Home / Arts / Architecture / History / Building Types / Religious / Christian / Monasteries / Monastic Churches
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- Bath Abbey - A former cathedral - the only one in Britain completely rebuilt in the Tudor period. Photographs, brief history, details of the heritage centre and music, visitor information.
www.bathabbey.org
- Bolton Abbey, N. Yorkshire - The former Priory Church of St.Mary and St.Cuthbert is now a parish church. This official site gives a history and plan with information on different parts of the building.
pages.britishlibrary.net/bolton.priory
- Cartmel Priory Church, Cumbria - Photographs, very brief history, recommended books.
homepage.ntlworld.com/howard.martin/Priory.html
- Dore Abbey Interactive Guide Book - The Friends of Dore Abbey provide an online history and tour of the surviving church of a Cistercian monastery in Herefordshire. Also FDA news; videos can be downloaded.
www.doreabbey.org.uk
- Lancaster Priory - Former priory church, now a parish church. History illustrated with lovely photographs, external and internal.
www.priory.lancs.ac.uk
- Malmesbury Abbey - This description of the delights of Malmesbury in Wiltshire from the Cotswold HyperGuide includes photographs and a popular history of the abbey, the Norman church of which is still in use.
www.digital-brilliance.com/hyperg/towns/malmes.htm
- Romsey Abbey - The official web-site of this impressive former abbey church, now a parish church, provides a brief history and description.
www.romseynet.org.uk/church/abbey/abb_indx.htm
- Romsey Abbey, Hampshire - Photographs, plan, Saxon history, architecture and archaeology with bibliography of the Abbey Church of St. Mary and St. Aethelflaed by David Nash Ford from Britannia Internet Magazine.
www.britannia.com/church/saxchurch/romsey.html
- The Abbey Church of St. Gall, Switzerland - Illustrated description from an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, of the Baroque church built c.1752 to a model by the Benedictine lay brother Gabriel Loser.
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2000/baroque/indepth3.htm
- Wymondham Abbey - The nave of the former abbey church of St. Mary and St. Thomas of Canterbury, Wymondham, Norfolk, survives as a parish church. The official site offers a brief history and tour.
www.wymondham-norfolk.co.uk/abbey
- Westminster Abbey - The official site for the burial place of kings. Five QuickTime virtual reality 360-degree interactive panoramas. Or tour with an interactive floor-plan leading to beautiful photographs and accompanying history. Visitor information.
www.westminster-abbey.org
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