Tag Archives: monastries
Orders and rules – monastic life #atozchallenge
As I’ve been exploring the theme of abbeys and cathedrals, I can’t hope notice how many difference religious orders existed across the centuries. Their influence on the architecture of abbeys in particular is reflected in their daily life. So here is a run down of the key orders and something about their influence on what […]
What if….
Been very absent from this blog for a while. School holidays, family visits… no time to write or edit, just coasting. I’m posting up some photos of my two favourite abbeys, both ruins, of course, because Henry VIII had them destroyed in the 1540s. Such a pity not to have the foresight to imagine a […]
The Quiet Writer 