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The Cistercians in Yorkshire - http://cistercians.shef.ac.uk/
Project at Sheffield University analysing the life, history and architecture of Cistercian monks in Yorkshire. Includes 3D virtual reality re-creations of the abbey buildings, and a gazetteer of Cistercian abbeys in the British Isles. |
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Fountains Abbey - http://www.fountainsabbey.org.uk/
Britain's largest monastic ruin and most complete Cistercian abbey is a World Heritage site. Photographs, outline history and visitor information from the National Trust. |
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Glastonbury Abbey - http://www.glastonburyabbey.com
Official web-site, stronger on myth and legend than proven historical fact. |
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Farnborough Abbey - http://www.farnboroughabbey.org/
The official site provides a history and interactive Virtual Reality tour of this monastery built by the Empress Eugenie to house the tomb of Napoleon III (d.1873). |
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Michelham Priory - http://www.sussexpast.co.uk/property/site.php?site_id=15
14th-century gatehouse and the remains of an Augustinian priory incorporated into a Tudor mansion. Photographs, a brief history and visitor information from owners Sussex Archaeological Society. |
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Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire - http://www.boltonabbey.com/
The ruins of a 12th-century Augustinian priory, of which only the church nave survives intact, on the estate of the Duke of Devonshire. Small photographs. |
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Buckfast Abbey, Devon - http://www.buckfast.org.uk/
The official site includes an illustrated history of the medieval monastery refounded in 1882. Sensitive map of the site leads to descriptions of the buildings. |
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Medieval English Cathedrals and Churches - http://myweb.lmu.edu/sshepherd/med.htm
Among the subjects of S.H. Shepherd's professional lens are the ruined Cistercian Abbey of Hailes, Gloucestershire and Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. Includes brief histories. |
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Furness Abbey - http://www.dalton-in-furness.org.uk/dalton-online/abbey-tour/index-abbeytour.html
Virtual tour provided by Dalton-in-Furness Online. Ground plan coloured to show dated building phases; photographs and details. |
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Lindisfarne: A Brief History and Virtual Tour - http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/lindis/lindisfarne.shtml
Dr Deborah Vess, Georgia State University, recounts her own spiritual journey to Holy Island as well as the island's history. Includes a pictorial tour of the priory ruins. |
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Reading Abbey - http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/abbey.htm
Reading Museum presents an illustrated history of this monastery founded in 1121 by Henry I, which is now in ruins. |
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Abbeys of the Witham Valley - http://www.lincsheritage.org/community_heritage/guides_information/witham_abbeys/
An illustrated to the history and remains of Bardney, Barlings and Tupholme Abbeys from The Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire, including ground plans and artist's reconstructions. |
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Dungiven Priory, Northern Ireland - http://www.angelfire.com/ga/priory/
Notes towards a dissertation by Gretta Logue of Queen's University, Belfast. Location plan. |
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St. Oswald's Priory, Gloucester - http://www.britannia.com/church/saxchurch/oswdglos.html
Reconstruction, photograph and history by David Nash Ford from Britannia Internet Magazine. |
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Whalley Abbey - http://www.aboutlancs.com/whalley.htm
A brief history of this Lancashire abbey by its Warden, Canon Geoffrey Williams. The ruins are open to the public. |