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Churches, Cathedrals & Abbeys

Jedburgh Abbey, founded by David I, is one of the four great abbeys built in Scotland’s border country during the Middle Ages.
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Kelso Abbey is what remains of a Scottish abbey built around 1143 by a community of Tironensian monks.
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Melrose Abbey is a Gothic-style abbey in Melrose founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks, on the request of King David I of Scotland
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Seton Collegiate Church is one of the finest medieval collegiate churches surviving in Scotland.
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The Cathedral of St Andrew dominated the history of the medieval church in Scotland until it fell into disuse after the Reformation in 1560.
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The present Cathedral was begun in 1181, and completed not long after, but there has been a monastic community on this site since AD 645.
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Sweetheart Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1275 by Dervorguilla of Galloway in memory of her husband John de Balliol.
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Tintern Abbey was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow in May 1131. It was the first Cistercian colony founded in Wales.
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Valle Crucis (Valley of the Cross) Abbey, founded in the 13th century by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor.
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Whithorn Priory was the centre of the revived See of Galloway under the patronage of Fergus, Bishop Gille Aldan from the 12th century.
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The Abbey of St Peter was a Benedictine monastery founded in the 11th century by King Cnut's house stewart Orc.
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St Catherine's Chapel is a small chapel, believed to have been built in the first half of the 15th as a Pilgrim chapel for Abbotsbury Abbey.
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Built by the royal masons in 1250, the Chapter House was originally used by Benedictine monks for prayers and their daily meetings.
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The Anglican church of St. Margaret, Westminster Abbey is the parish church of the House of Commons in London.
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The building of the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court was begun by Wolsey and completed under Henry VIII.
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Bayham Abbey, on the Kent-Sussex border is an impressive ruin including much of the 13th to 15th-century church & the chapter house.
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St Mary's Priory, Binham, or Binham Priory, is a ruined Benedictine priory which was founded in the late 11th century.
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Easby Abbey or the Abbey of St Agatha is an abandoned Premonstratensian abbey originally founded in 1152.
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The ruins of Old Church are located in the village of Edvin Loach, (or Edwin Loach).
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Duxford Chapel, built in the 14th century was once part of the Hospital of St. John at Duxford.
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