Sometimes a nunnery possessed a famous relic, and the faithful who visited it showed their devotion by leaving a gift at the shrine.
A close link bound each nunnery to the family of its patron.
Great houses such as Barking, Shaftesbury and Wilton had a body of resident chaplains attached to the nunnery church and paid the stipends of priests ministering to appropriated parishes.
An analysis of these accounts shows, better than any other means of information, the various sources from which a medieval nunnery drew its income, and the chief classes of expenditure which it had to meet.
Here he died, and in the church of the nunnery he was buried.
Watergate and Fishergate, in the suburbs of York, and in another place the anchorite of the nunnery of St. Clement, York.
So Sir Tristram, in his combat with Sir Marhaus, was so sorely wounded, "that unneath he might recover, and lay at a nunnery half a year.
The chapel of the nunnery is now used by the inhabitants as a kind of general cow-house, and the bottom is consequently too miry for examination.
The cemetery of the nunnery was, till very lately, regarded with such reverence, that only women were buried in it.
As with the ordinary rules of conduct, so the ordinary routine of daily life in a nunnery corresponded to that of a monastery.
Rumour of his piety went back to Ireland, and St. Bridget, who had founded a nunneryat Kildare, resolved on a pilgrimage to the good man's island.
Nigel waited with Pommers under the shadow of the nunnery wall, horse and man chafing with impatience, whilst above them six round-eyed innocent nun-faces looked down on this strange and disturbing vision from the outer world.
I shall take the veil in Shalford nunnery and look upon no man's face again!
He had a scaffolding erected in the Nunnery Church and on the still moist plaster began to paint, with wondrous vigour of execution, the history of Jesus Christ.
Unfortunately the paintings were all destroyed along with the Church of the Nunnery of the Ladies of Faenza.
Now the Abbess of the Ladies of Faenza, established at Florence, determined about this time to have the Church of their Nunnery decorated with frescoes.
He founded and endowed the leper hospital of St. Julian on the London Road, and established the nunnery of Sopwell (see Appendix) for thirteen sisters.
They accepted the Benedictine Rule, and gradually the nunnery increased in size, and many ladies of high birth took the veil here.
Besides the general view from Holywell Hill, there are two other distant points of view which should not be missed: one from Verulam woods, to the south-west; and one from the fields in which the ruins of Sopwell Nunnery stand.
There are a few remains of Sopwell Nunnery in a field near the river Ver, to the south-east of the city.
This nunnery was founded by Geoffrey of Gorham, sixteenth Abbot, about the middle of the twelfth century.
When thenunnery was dissolved, Sir Richard Lee, to whom the Abbey lands were granted, turned it into a dwelling-house for himself.
You see, the nunnery was on this side, or, at any rate, the part where the nuns slept.
The church was once connected with an ancient nunnery which covered the whole square outside.
As soon as my worldly affairs can be arranged, I shall retire to the English nunnery at Brussels, where I shall vow myself to Heaven.
The accounts given of the first foundation of the nunnery of St. Bees are very contradictory, the common version being the traditionary account in Mr. Sandford's MS.
And under this cell, Bishop Tanner says, there was a small nunnery situated at Rottington, about a mile from St. Bees.
A small nunnery of Benedictines formerly existed within this seignory, at Lekely in Seaton, which lies westward from Bootle, near the sea.
The nunnery was dedicated to St. Leonard; and was so poor that it could not sufficiently maintain the prioress and nuns.
We lingered long, and walked home through thenunnery grounds.
The nunnery house is as it should be; and the castle, with stronger towers in the same style, would have been a noble object in the bay.
The view of the nunnery charming from some points.
Do you think I was made to be cooped up in a nunneryif I could escape?
The sombre Boston parlor vanished, and he seemed to be in some old-world nunnerywith the unknown lovers.
Near the church there once existed a Benedictine nunnery (said to have been founded before 1212); and what is now the S.
Then Hildegund laid aside her gay attire and happy heart, with her hopes, and leaving her father's castle, came down to bury her young life in the nunnery upon the island at its foot.
By the blackened walls of the nunnery Gorlois caught sight of a line of mutilated bodies tied to posts,--dead nuns, stripped, and still bleeding.
Suger had been directed to find a nunnerywhich would receive the evicted sisters, and most of them had gone to St. Mary of Footel.
Nor was this the first Parisian nunnery to be suppressed in the twelfth century.
She had spent her early years at the Benedictine nunnery at Argenteuil, a few miles beyond St. Denis.
Did they not have conjugal relations in the holy nunnery of the Virgin at Argenteuil?
The asserted corruption of the nunnery is quite in accord with what we know of the period from other sources.
Most of whatever money he earned, after he first began to serve up stale dishes to his students in the absorption of his passion, would probably pass into the coffers of Fulbert or, later, of the nunnery at Argenteuil.
In his De rebus a se gestis, Suger writes at great length of the additional possessions he secured for the abbey, and amongst these is enumerated the nunnery of St. Mary at Argenteuil.
We know, at least, that the nunnery was in a very lax condition, and that, beyond her unconquerable presentiment of evil, Heloise would suffer little restraint.
Ye blushing virgins happy are In the chaste nunnery of her breast; For he'd profane so chaste a fair Who e'er should call it Cupid's nest.
The traditions among the inhabitants affirm, that a subterraneous passage connects this castle with the nunnery at Rusper, which is 8 miles distant, but no attempt has been undertaken to ascertain the truth of this conjecture.
A work produced at Hohenburg, a nunneryin Elsass, in the 12th century confirms the belief that given favourable conditions it is possible for women to produce good work and to help to accumulate knowledge.
The quarrel which began over the nunnery ended with the ban of excommunication being pronounced against Sigmund, and with his appeal to a Church Council against the authority of the Papal Curia.
The nunneryof St Mary's, Winchester, was one of the houses that held of the king.
Ingetrud, the mother of Berthegund, had founded a nunnery at Tours close to the church of St Martin, and she urged her daughter, who was married, to come and live with her.
A manuscript now at Oxford, written in English, which came from Barking nunnery gives directions as to the formal appointment of the prioress in that house[921].
The idea that it was written for the nunnery at Tarent may also be discarded, for Tarent was a house founded by Ralph de Kahaines in the time of Richard I.
There was no nunnery in Coventry in the Middle Ages, the nearestnunnery of importance would be the one at Wroxhall.
In the case of this nunnery it is unknown how far the convent showed readiness to join the congregation of Bursfeld, or how far it was persuaded or coerced into doing so.
The standard of education in the average nunnery was deteriorating because devotional interests were cultivated to the exclusion of everything else.
The abbess Armengard von Rheden, of the wealthy Benedictine nunnery of Fischbeck on the Weser[1023], also agreed to receive nuns from a reformed house into her establishment as teachers.
Fontevraud occupied a high standing, and we shall find that nuns were brought thence into England when the nunnery of Amesbury was reformed in the reign of King John.
The accounts of visitations instituted by the diocesan give us an insight into the abuses which threatened life in the nunnery at different periods.
Education in a nunnery at this period secured the privilege of being addressed as 'Madame,' the title of a woman of the upper classes.
There was a little court, lighted by a single lamp burning within a window, with the nunnery itself on one side, and a small cottage on the other.
He pictured to himself what life must be like through the nunnery wall opposite--how brisk and punctual it must be, and at the same time homely and caressing.
As Ralph came in, the door from the nunnery opened again, and a lay sister came out hastily; she moved straight across and took the horse by the bridle.
We will start on our drive to the nunneryas early as you please, Chevalier.
But how foolish he had been to seek Marcolina in the Murano nunnerywhen she had gone to visit Voltaire.
Now came a turn in the road, and the nunnery was in sight.
The Abbate mentioned that there was a nunnery close at hand, and strongly recommended Casanova to visit the place if he had never seen it.
The knight's marriage had lasted only a few years, and had left him no surviving children except one little daughter, whom he had placed in a nunnery at Ulm, under the care of her mother's sister.
Could he not take her to some nunnery midway, and let her write to her uncle to fetch her from thence?
It is mainly the Early English church of the nunnery curtailed and altered by Bishop Alcock, who put in Perpendicular windows and removed aides without a thought of the denunciations he has since incurred.
It was actually founded as long ago as 1497, and the buildings include the church and other parts of the Benedictine nunnery of the Virgin and St. Rhadegund.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nunnery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
