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| x St Albans Abbey |
St Albans Abbey was a Benedictine abbey at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. It was founded, according to the sources, in 793 by King Offa of Mercia and dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The abbey was built around the...
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| x St Augustine's Abbey |
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St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine abbey in Canterbury, Kent, England.
In the year 597, Saint Augustine arrived in England, having been sent by Pope Gregory I, on what might nowadays be called a revival mission. The King of Kent at this time was...
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| x Buckfast Abbey |
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Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Dedicated to Saint Mary, it was founded in 1018 and run by the Cistercian order from 1147 until it was destroyed under the Dissolution of the Monasteries....
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| x Westminster Abbey |
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The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the...
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