Meanings of conventual buildings in English

In the year 1528, James V. added a palace to the conventual buildings.

Nothing remains of the conventual buildings but a few scanty patches of masonry.

Six churches still remain of the fifteen which, beside many conventual buildings, formerly adorned it.

The monks' refectory, all that remains of the conventual buildings, indicates the former splendour of the establishment.

The cloisters were only one of the courts or open squares, which separated groups of conventual buildings.

In the civil wars, the Lady Chapel and several conventual buildings were pulled down and the materials sold.

Benedictine abbeys usually conformed to a common scheme as regards the planning of the church and the conventual buildings.

In old English country-houses, which have formerly been conventual buildings, the gothic style may be, with great propriety, introduced.

Of the conventual buildings nothing remains, but a few fragments of the succeeding mansion of the Pauletts are now incorporated in a neighbouring farmhouse.

Whether the barn had ever formed one of a group of conventual buildings nobody seemed to be aware; no trace of such surroundings remained.

It was built after the manner of conventual buildings generally,-ina hollow square, with a cloistered walk around the inside looking upon a garden.

The conventual buildings were now visible on the top of the neighbouring hill, with the church spire higher against the sky than all the rest.