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Woburn Abbey (/ ˈ w oʊ b ər n /), [n 1] [3] occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford.Although it is still a family home to the current duke, it is open on specified days to visitors, along with the diverse estate surrounding it, including the historic landscape gardens and deer park (by Humphry Repton), as ...
Hugh de Rosel, the legendary and probably fictitious Norman ancestor of Clan Russell. Drawn by Le Neve, York Herald, in 1626. Woburn Abbey collection. Scottish author George F Black believed the surname Russell may be derived from roux which means red. [2] Other writers claim it to be derived from the Norman place name de Rosel.
The abbey library of Saint Gall (German: Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland.In 1983, the library, as well as the Abbey of St. Gall, were designated a World Heritage Site, as "an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural ...
Tresco Abbey Gardens are located on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. The 17 acre gardens were established by the nineteenth-century proprietor of the islands, Augustus Smith , originally as a private garden within the grounds of the home he designed and built.
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs.
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns .
A substantial collection of material relating to Syon Abbey is held at the University of Exeter Special Collections. [46] A large proportion of this collection comprises material deposited by the sisters of Syon Abbey between 1990 and the monastery's closure in 2011, including the community's archive, [47] manuscripts [48] and printed books. [49]
The collection particularly features ecclesiastical art, and contains for example many works of ecclesiastical embroidery by the famous craftsman Benno Haan and of the abbey sculptor Joseph Stammel. Since 1997, the abbey has also been building up a collection of contemporary art, largely produced by young Austrian artists and often specially ...