Priory

priory - religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress
residence - the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president); "he refused to live in the governor's residence" ...

The Priory of the Dominicans occupied this site from 1279 to 1539. Because of their black habits, they were known as the "Blackfriars." ...

Building: Priory Church
Date: ca. 1050 - 1120
Interior view of nave
Paris (France) ...

Alien Priory A priory that was directly dependant on a foreign mother house, usually in France. Disbanded in 1414 due to the security risk they posed.

priory A monastery or convent led by a prior. Originally, a priory was an offshoot from a larger abbey, to the abbot of which it continued to be subordinate. Today there is often little distinction between an abbey and a priory.

Only prestigious buildings such as Felley Priory in Ashfield are constructed of brick, and then mostly just the facing of the walls with rubble behind.

14. Cusped arch; Christchurch Priory, Hants.
55. Multifoil cusped arch, invented by the Moors at Cordova in the Loth century.
16. Flat arch, where the soffit is horizontal and sometimes slightly combined (dotted line).

St Wystan's church, Repton, Derbyshire (crypt c. 750, chancel walls ninth century)
St Mary's Priory Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire (c. 930)
All Saints' Church, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire
St Laurence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire ...

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