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The Abbey was founded in 1128 for the Augustinian Canons by David I, who as King was responsible for the re-introduction of monasticism into Scotland.
At the east side of the market place was the entrance to Abingdon Abbey.
This photograph was taken from under the arch of the gateway leading to Malmesbury Abbey, looking out towards the market cross.
The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor
In 1538 Roche Abbey was surrendered to the Crown and destroyed.
In 1538 Roche Abbey was surrendered to the Crown and destroyed.
Atop his pedestal, James Ramsden (then flanked by street lights at each corner of his enclosure) is looking up Abbey Road.
It once housed the abbey founded by King Stephen in 1147, where he was buried with his queen Matilda.
The old school house was later a sanatorium from 1907 to 1947, and then became the Youth Hostel.
To the left of the pub is the site of the house where Abbot John Reeve lived from the closure of the abbey in November 1539 until his death in April 1540.
In 739, the Mercian king Offa founded a Benedictine house for men and women, which he endowed with huge tracts of Hertfordshire countryside together with their rents and tithes.
The abbey was founded in 1136; it was converted into a house and further enlarged in the 17th century by the Savile family.
We are looking north-east from the green in front of The Abbey's large grounds; this view is remarkably unchanged since 1890.
This vast and architecturally complex mansion is on the site of an abbey founded in 1153, of which fragments remain.
About two miles north of Bletchley, with the Grand Union Canal passing to its west and the River Ouzel to its right, Simpson has a number of old cottages and many new city houses and estates.
The tower of Tower House can be seen at the junction with Cross Hayes Lane (right).
The 16th-century hall was built as a hunting lodge, using a hammer-beam roof taken from Anglesey Abbey after it was demolished.
A little further north along Albert Embankment we get this wonderful view of the houses of Parliament.
The Abbey Brewery, which occupied many of the buildings in the left-hand distance, closed in 1895, and the watermill became Langford's Coal and Corn Merchants.
The famous twin towers of the Norman church, built on the site of an earlier Saxon abbey and the centre of the Roman fortress of Regulbium, built around AD 280 by Carausius, were for many centuries a landmark
