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Fountains Abbey Fountains Abbey
Fountains Abbey ruined Cistercian abbey, West Riding of Yorkshire, N England, near Ripon. It was founded in 1132.... Read more
Medmenham Abbey Medmenham Abbey
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Thomas of Canterbury Thomas of Canterbury
Canterbury, Thomas of (fl.1323–35). Master-mason who worked under Walter of Canterbury at the Palace of Westminster and the Tower of London in 1323. Around 1326 he was building the new chapel at Guildhall, London, and in 1331 was master-mason in charge of the upper chapel at St Stephen's... Read more
Michael of Canterbury Michael of Canterbury
Canterbury, Michael of (fl.1275–1321). Medieval master-mason. He worked at Canterbury Cathedral, and was the architect of St Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster (from 1292). He was of great importance in the evolution of the Second Pointed style of Gothic, especially through his use of... Read more
Walsingham Walsingham
Walsingham town (1991 pop. 18,050), Norfolk, E central England. It is the site of Walsingham Abbey, one of the renowned shrines of medieval England.... Read more
Rievaulx Abbey Rievaulx Abbey
Rievaulx abbey (Yorks.) was founded in 1131 in the Rie valley by Walter Espec, lord of nearby Helmsley, in consultation with St Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux, and Archbishop Thurstan of York. It was the second Cistercian abbey to be established in England. Under the abbacy of St Ailred, who had... Read more
Jakob Prandtauer Jakob Prandtauer
Jakob Prandtauer The Austrian baroque architect Jakob Prandtauer (1660-1726) is famed chiefly for his monastic and religious buildings, notably the abbey and church of Melk. Jakob Prandtauer, born in mid-July 1660 in Stanz in the Tirol, was the son of a master mason, and he too learned the... Read more
Walter of Canterbury Walter of Canterbury
Canterbury, Walter of (fl.1319–27). Master-mason. He rebuilt the outer curtain-wall at the Tower of London beside the Traitors' Gate (1324–5), and about the same time he was engaged on work at the lower part of St Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster, where he probably designed the... Read more
Luxeuil Luxeuil
Luxeuil , former abbey, E France, at the present-day town of Luxeuil-les-Bains. It was founded c.590 by St. Columban on the site of the Roman town Luxovium, destroyed (451) by Attila, later established in Franche-Comté and now in the Haute-Saône dept. The ascetic rule of Columban was... Read more
Alcobaca Alcobaca
Alcobaça , town (1991 pop. 5,235), Leiria dist., W central Portugal, in Estremadura. The town, a fruit processing and textile center, became a center of the Cistercians in the reign of Alfonso I, and its abbey (building begun 1152) was the greatest of medieval Portugal. The Alcobaça... Read more

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