noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
benedictine
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The original town had been founded with a new market place in 1135-9 by the Benedictine abbey there.
cistercian
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At Pipewell in Northamptonshire, earthworks remain of the pre-existing hamlet, mixed up with earthworks of the Cistercian abbey buildings.
great
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It had magnificent vaults based on the conceptions of Imperial Rome and was one of the great abbeys of its age.
ruined
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At home the prevailing taste was for more picturesque remains, ruined abbeys and medieval churches.
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For a second or two the moon escapes from behind the rushing clouds casting silvery shadows on the ruined abbey .
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At that moment they reached the ruined abbey and she fell silent at its sheer beauty.
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St Albans with its Verulamium, ruined abbey and rose gardens is 15 miles away.
■ NOUN
church
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Early the next morning Benjamin attended mass in the abbey church then roused me.
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The abbey church is a magnificent example of these domed churches; it is 275 feet long.
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From Chinon Henry's body was carried to Fontevraud and laid in the abbey church .
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Several large abbey churches survive, mainly built in brick, and all carefully restored.
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It was probably used by travellers and villagers as the abbey church would, most likely, have served only the monks.
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He visited his father's body where it lay in the abbey church of Fontrevault.
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He cast a bell for the newly rebuilt abbey church .
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A fine example of this type of abbey church is that at Løgumkloster, founded in 1173 by the Cistercian Order.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A land where meandering rivers flow through breathtaking scenery and beside magnificent abbeys and castles.
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At Bury, for instance, the abbey owned the whole site and could lay it out as it pleased.
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At home the prevailing taste was for more picturesque remains, ruined abbeys and medieval churches.
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But the history and the atmosphere of Kirkstead does not end at the abbey ruins.
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Opposite, the fields of the abbey stretched to its grey stone walls.
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The abbey was surrendered the same year.
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Today this is grazing land for sheep, as most of the surrounding area has been since the founding of the abbey .