(1) 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.

(2) Nostell Priory takes its name from a priory located in the vicinity for several centuries until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

(3) After more than a decade in storage at the priory , formed in 1189, the small pieces of glass have been worked back into the top sections of the Piper Choir Windows at the popular place of worship.

(4) The priory was destroyed in the Reformation but was rebuilt as a private home in 1821 and has since housed convalescing miners, injured soldiers and, after standing empty for five years, the Buddhist community.

(5) The site acquired by Bishop Losinga was unusually large; he envisaged not only a cathedral but also a priory for 60 Benedictine monks and an episcopal palace.

(6) After 1436 he worked extensively at the priory of S. Marco in Florence, and from c. 1445 was a good deal occupied in Rome, also painting in Orvieto in 1447.

(7) The buildings were originally an Augustinian priory built in the twelfth century to which the O'Cahan clan had added a medieval tower-house.

(8) After his recovery, Abelard resumed teaching at a nearby priory , primarily on theology and in particular on the Trinity.

(9) There is much to explore here with the foundations of the monastic priory buildings still clearly visible to the south of the church.

(10) Now, in a determined bid to preserve the priory , fund-raisers have set about to gather the remaining u00a375,000 towards the u00a3195,000 restoration.

(11) Lindisfarne became a place of pilgrimage during the priory 's u2018golden ageu2019 in the seventh century and all the tourism literature boasts it has remained so ever since.

(12) The students would stay at the thirteenth-century Dominican priory while the brothers took a brief holiday; Mass would be said each day in the priory 's chapter room.

(13) Heather Sebire, the Guernsey archaeologist, has been leading a team exposing and making safe the crumbling ruins of the priory itself with its tiny church and the domestic buildings where the monks ate and slept.

(14) A few years after, and probably in response to, the foundation of the abbey, this church became an Augustinian priory .

(15) St. Gobban, around the close of the 6th century founded the first of the Christian churches here, a priory for the Canons regular.

(16) The outcome of this initiative was probably the foundation of a Canterbury priory at Dunfermline, the first u2018regularu2019 Benedictine house in the Scottish kingdom.

(17) Large monasteries were known as abbeys, whilst smaller ones were called priories and were often set up near an abbey.

(18) All the concerts are set in ancient churches, abbeys and priories , with thick stonewalls, arches and vaulted domes, which provide a uniquely peaceful atmosphere and excellent acoustics.

(19) He was, after all, a district vicar in the Augustinian Order in charge of ten priories and a Bible professor on the theological faculty at the University of Wittenberg.

(20) Others included walks from Iona to Holy Island, Canterbury to York, and around the monasteries, abbeys and priories of Yorkshire.