This form of Romanesque Cistercian church is of great simplicity ... Within its enclosing wall, the Abbey still retains other communal buildings: monks’ day room and dormitory, warming room, refectory ...

These tiles are the original tiles found in the Muniments room above the Warming Room in Fountains Abbey. The tiles were used as a practical way of flooring the room. The Muniments Room was used ...

Melrose was the first Cistercian abbey in Scotland, founded in 1136 by King David I. Three miles away from the present abbey, Old Melrose had been a monastic settlement since the 7th centuary ...

Autumn sunshine at Kirkstall Abbey in 1950 Many of the Cistercian abbeys were situated ... Reredorter; Refectory; Warming House; Novices' quarter; Abbot's lodgings; and Infirmary.

The Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross) in Austria is the oldest in the world, dating back almost 1,000 years, and currently has more than 100 monks living there. It has never had ...

A hundred years later the Abbey was one of the richest religious houses in England with 400 Cistercian monks, and 800 lay brothers. The power of Fountains was felt far and wide with the Abbey's ...