The general motive of abbatial building was common to them all.

Under this thoroughly abbatial robe, signed with a cross and the ecclesiastic initials 'D.O.M.

The abbey stood on one of the lower slopes, on a knoll overlooking rich water-meadows, formerly abbatial lands.

These eleventh-century abbatial buildings faced north and west, and are close to the present parvis, opposite the last arch of the nave.

His body was buried in his own church, which he had built of wood, on the spot upon which the abbatial house now stands.