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Refectory table. A refectory table is a highly elongated table [1] used originally for dining in monasteries during Medieval times. In the Late Middle Ages, the table gradually became a banqueting or feasting table in castles and other noble residences. The original table manufacture was by hand and created of oak or walnut; the design is based ...
The Plan of Saint Gall is a medieval architectural drawing of a monastic compound dating from 820–830 AD. [1] It depicts an entire Benedictine monastic compound, including church, houses, stables, kitchens, workshops, brewery, infirmary, and a special building for bloodletting. According to calculations based on the manuscript's tituli the ...
Refectory. A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries. The name derives from the Latin reficere "to remake or restore," via Late Latin refectorium, which means "a place one ...
Ipswich Blackfriars was a medieval religious house of Friars-preachers (Dominicans) in the town of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, founded in 1263 by King Henry III and dissolved in 1538. [1] It was the second of the three mendicant communities established in the town, the first (before 1236) being the Greyfriars, a house of Franciscan Friars Minors ...
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. The term "Romanesque" is usually used for the period from the 10th to the 12th century with "Pre-Romanesque" and "First Romanesque" being applied to earlier buildings with Romanesque characteristics.
The Iona Nunnery was an Augustinian convent of nuns located on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was established sometime after the foundation of the nearby Benedictine monastery in 1203 by Ranald, son of Somerled. Bethóc, daughter of Somerled, and sister of Ranald, was first prioress. The ruins of the nunnery stand in a ...
The 15th century refectory is the only claustral building to survive, though it was subdivided in 1713. [5] The vaulted refectory pulpit survives and was restored in 1960. [5] The Priory structure, the burial ground and the carved stones have been collectively designated a scheduled ancient monument by Historic Environment Scotland. [6]
Frederick Herbert Crossley FSA (2 August 1868 – 6 January 1955), [1] known as Fred Crossley or Fred H. Crossley, was a British wood carver, designer and an authority on Medieval English architecture, church furnishings and also timberwork. [2] [3] [4] Together with Thomas Rayson, he designed the Chester War Memorial in the grounds of Chester ...