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The old abbey just outside the village was founded in 1411 as a Benedictine hospital, but at the Dissolution it came into the hands of the Courtenay family who made it into a residence.

It is now thought that this legend was concocted around the 13th century by the monks of Glastonbury Abbey.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

Though the west tower with its distinctive recessed spire is said to contain masonry older than Roche Abbey, the rest of St Bartholomew's dates from 1859, when it was rebuilt to a design by P Boyce.

Dating from the late 15th century, the three-storey porch originally housed the administrative offices for the abbey.

Howth Abbey is also known as the collegiate church of Saint Mary.

Standing on the site of an Augustinian convent which was founded in 1232, Lacock Abbey is the place where, in 1835, William Henry Fox-Talbot took the world's first photograph - a negative of

Top right: Ecclesall Church, an important landmark in this sprawling suburb, dates from 1788 and replaced an ancient chapel that was served by the monks of Beauchief Abbey.

In the background is the abbey church, dating from around 1100.

It was all done in memory of Sir Joseph Banks, who lived in Revesby Abbey, named after the 12th-century abbey, a Cistercian foundation.

To the east of the village are the earthworks of a moated grange to Garendon Abbey, a Cistercian house founded in 1377.

In the background is the beautiful abbey church, dating from around 1100.

Today's visitors can repair to the bar in the basement of the hotel, which occupies part of the west range of the abbey.

The Canongate was where the canons of Holyrood Abbey entered the Old Town.

Parts of it date from the 1400s, and the three bells are said to have come from the Abbey after it was pulled down.

Top right: Ecclesall Church, an important landmark in this sprawling suburb, dates from 1788 and replaced an ancient chapel that was served by the monks of Beauchief Abbey.

The abbey is much shorter than its Norman predecessor, occupying only the space of its nave; the former choir and transepts were where the railinged green is in this view.

by the illustrious London architects Ernest George & Peto and built in 1882 at the then enormous cost of £20,000, was funded by Viscountess Ossington, sister of the 5th Duke of Portland of Welbeck Abbey. A

Its abbey is set on a hilltop, where a castle once also stood until it was demolished in 1216.

A Benedictine abbey stood just off the town square, a vast church that dated from Saxon days.

Ramsey attained early importance with the foundation of its abbey in 969.

Little of the abbey church remains, but other buildings around the cloister are better preserved.

Lacock Abbey is one of our national treasures.

Pevsner rightly refers to the house (extreme left) as the finest of its date in the county, designed by William Smith of Warwick in 1697 for Sir Roger Cave.