The abbatial parlours have been converted into lofts, while the crypt has returned to what may not improbably have been its original uses--the storage of great casks of the ale for which Abingdon is well famed in its own neighbourhood.
A pretty little illustration of thisabbatial hospitality occurs in Marie's "Lay of Ywonec.
The abbatial building became a castle, and the park was laid out again.
The abbatial building, which to-day contains the museum and which can be seen on the left of the beautiful avenue leading to the entrance gate, shows the dignified style that Aubert wished to apply to the new edifice.
Berthe de Blangi, in the diocese of Boullogne, owned the superior power of the abbot of Fécamp, and supplied the three mitres which he proudly bore on his abbatial shield.
We were all busily occupied, during the next ten days, with preparations for the solemnity of my abbatial benediction, which took place on April 9, in presence of a large assemblage of invited guests and interested onlookers.
The elaborate ceremony took nearly three hours: we were mercifully spared a sermon, but, en revanche, the episcopal and abbatial speeches at the subsequent luncheon were long and rather wearisome.
His body was buried in his own church, which he had built of wood, on the spot upon which the abbatial house now stands.
His body is possessed in a rich shrine, in the abbatial church of Our Lady at Ham, in Picardy, belonging to the regular canons of St. Genevieve.
The result is an abbatial church unlike all otherabbatial churches.
All day little processions were going up and down the steep stone steps that lead from fortified rock to parish church, and from the town to the abbatial gateway.
Through the lancet windows of the abbatial gateways the yeomanry of the vassal villages are peering; it is the weary time of the Hundred Years' War, and all France is watching, through sentry windows, for the approach of her dread enemy.
At the dissolution, Mr. Horner was sent to take up the parchments of the abbatial lands to Windsor, and for better security took them in a pasty.
The great hall has its gothic roof of abbatial times, and in the stately saloon are noble Mortlake tapestries, said to have been presented by Charles I.
To manuscript Number 8, dated the year 737 of our era, an abbatial crosier was attached.
Christian's brother, Malchus, was elected to the abbatial office in his stead.
But from that time forward the tide of monastic affairs flowed in one even course of prosperity; though the present abbatial church was not begun till the time of Abbot Robert, the second of that name, who was elected in 1037.
If the superior was to hold the abbatial dignity, before his installation he received the rite of solemn benediction at the hands of the diocesan.
I tell thee, thou traitor and malignant, that the election shall be made forthwith; and that before I quit this house I will see an honest man put into the abbatial chair, and confirm him therein by our royal deed.
The World War swept over Orbais, but the abbatial is unharmed.
The Cistercian church of La Blanche at Mortain was another abbatial of the Manche, dedicated in 1206.
Some important Primary Gothic churches: Abbatial of St. Remi at Rheims (c.
A total reconstruction of the abbatial was necessary in 1277, but after the upper crypt and the choir were undertaken there came a pause.
The present abbatial was begun a generation after the foundation of Pontigny, with funds contributed by Thibaut the Great, Count of Champagne.
Some of the capitals from the abbatial are contemporaries of the statuary at Vézelay, where Peter the Venerable had been prior, and where his brother, Pons de Montboissier, was abbot.
In St. Remi's abbatialthe last phase of Gothic art was to be represented.
On the road from Coutances to Cherbourg is the abbatial of Lessay (a contemporary of St. Étienne at Caen), said by M.
The abbatialof St. Julien, a contemporary of Tours Cathedral, is exceptionally pure Gothic.
This ancient abbatial church succeeded an earlier basilique on the same site.
It was an ancient abbatial church in the Romanesque style, and has an attractive cloister built after the same manner.
The ancient abbatial church is now the parish church.
It was destroyed and rebuilt many times in the years to follow, but its old abbatial church still exists, one tower coifed by a dome, and another smaller and flat.
And yet we should go far astray if we imposed upon these Cambridgeshire villages that neat manorial system which we see at its neatest and strongest in the abbatial cartularies.
