Meanings of ancient abbey in English

Charles Egremont mused, as he wandered among the ruins of the ancient abbey.

A large willow overhung this unmistakable relic of the ancient abbey.

There it stands to this day in the churchyard of Billingsfield, Essex, in the shadow of the ancient abbey.

The vaulted kitchens with vast fireplaces are relics of the ancient abbey, and even now form most picturesque interiors.

Steam is rising off the water, and golden evening light reflects on to the Bath stone of the ancient abbey.

Some people bring home a bundle of sketches from their summer holiday-water-colourmemories of cliff, of sea, ruined castle, and ancient abbey.

It moaned about the stone walls of the ancient abbey and about the aluminum and glass walls of the modern additions to the abbey.

On this side the back of the church ran out into a broad meadow, where the larger portion of the ancient abbey had once stood.

Across the highway from the ancient abbey, atop one of the new aluminum and glass buildings, a monk on the roof was sampling the wind.

One of Rodney's principal patrons was a certain Father McCabe, who had begun life by making an ancient abbey ridiculous by adding a modern steeple.

All who could be present were there, somewhere in the ancient Abbey.

There, just above the ancient Abbey of Holyrood, are the superb cliffs called Salisbury Crags.

Fronting the gates of the ancient Abbey, it occupies the most prominent place in the town.

They are as fond of ancient abbeys and churches as ever were the monks of old.

In the ancient Abbey Church are two masterpieces, a retable in carved wood and a tomb ornamented with exquisite statuettes.

About the year 650, among the servants in the ancient Abbey of Streonschall, there was a cowherd whose name was Caedmon.