Meanings of cistercian houses in English

Fountains Abbey, first founded A.D. 1132, is one of the largest and best preserved Cistercian houses in England.

In Cistercian houses this was quadrangular, and was divided by pillars and arches into two or three aisles.

By the end of the century, there were 530 Cistercian houses throughout Europe, tightly organized into a single structure centred on Citeaux.

The usually unvarying arrangement of the Cistercian houses allows us to accept this as a type of the monasteries of this order.

The monastery flourished under his direction and became the parent of no less than sixty-five Cistercian houses which were planted in the wilderness.