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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.

Ripon Cathedral stands on the site of the Saxon abbey church of St Wilfrid, of which this crypt still remains. It dates from about 672, and is one of the oldest Christian survivals in England.

It was a Roman town and the seat of an Anglo-Saxon bishopric, and is now dominated by its great late 11th-century Abbey church. Nowadays the by-passed winding High Street is again peaceful.

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

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

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

Howth Abbey is also known as the collegiate church of Saint Mary. It is believed to have been founded in 1235, although it is based upon a Viking foundation.

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

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.

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.

The Canongate was where the canons of Holyrood Abbey entered the Old Town. The tolbooth, with its projecting clock, is one of the most famous landmarks on the Royal Mile and dates from 1591.

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

Its abbey is set on a hilltop, where a castle once also stood until it was demolished in 1216. The Abbey church was founded in the 7th century.

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

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.

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

Little of the abbey church remains, but other buildings around the cloister are better preserved. This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.

Lacock Abbey is one of our national treasures. It was founded as an Augustinian nunnery in 1232 and converted to a private residence after the Reformation.

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

Ramsey attained early importance with the foundation of its abbey in 969. It survived for around five hundred years until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century.

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.