Abbeys I Quiz

As mentioned earlier in History Quiz VII, over 800 monasteries, abbeys and priories were laid waste to midway through the 16th century and - apart from those that were especially retained to become cathedrals (namely Gloucester, Ely, Chester, Durham, Norwich, St Albans, Peterborough & Winchester) - only 30 remain intact. Some of these are in private ownership and/or have been adapted for a separate non-secular purpose.
Here are half of them for you to name, and in each case a picture, their county and one other clue is given. 1pt for each.


1.
County Down; dissolved later under James I.
2.
Somerset, now serves as a Parish Church.
3.
Berkshire, now a manor house housing one of five National Sports Centres.
4.
Lincs, now serves as a parish church.
5.
Northumberland, stages an annual classical music festival.
6.
Devon, back in use as a monastery, now Benedictine order (formerly Cistercian).
7.
Cumbria, has been a prison, a grammar school, now a museum.
8.
London (Smithfield) - was used as public school, but this has since been relocated to Godalming.
9.
Dorset, a living church;legend of the "miraculous beam" changed the name of the town from Twynham to that of the present day.
10.
Northampton, estate purchased by the Corporation from the War Office.
11.
Herefordshire, in use as a church, though restored in 17th century lacks a nave.
12.
Dorset, an elegant stately home.
13.
Worcestershire, now serves as a parish church.
14.
Northumbria, now a parish church, before served as an Augustinian priory on the site of a cathedral.
15.
Wiltshire, now National Trust, some interior sequences in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were filmed here.

Further clue - these are A-L; M-Z are to follow in Part II !
Good luck !

[CraigC]

8 = Charterhouse?
9. Christchurch Priory
12. Forde Abbey
15. Lacock Abbey

All for now, supposed to be working.

Excellent answers, all correct.

Leader:
[glow=red,2,300]CraigC 4pts[/glow]

[Chris_Sav]

Ask a stupid question herr Quizmeister - What's the difference between a Abbey and a Cathedral?? they're both big churches??

Sav

An Abbey is - or was ! - the church building attached to a Monastery.
In a working monastery, one side was taken up by the large abbey church, where the eight daily services were performed. On the other three sides were the living and eating quarters (ie, dormitory, refectory and kitchens), and important buildings such as the chapter-house, where meetings were held. In the centre was open space, surrounded by a covered walkway called the cloisters, where the monks worked and read.

With the Dissolution, the monks' living and working quarters were destroyed, and many of the beautiful abbey buildings as well. Some were spared, though, by local townsfolk raising the capital to buy the Abbey building in which they had habitually been allowed to worship.

A cathedral is determined by having a "See" with subordinate parishes and a bishop in charge. It holds the "cathedra" - or bishop's throne.

Henry VIII did spare some of the larger Abbey buildings by creating a new See especially, thus they were turned into cathedrals, the monks having been expelled. Other abbeys which were saved by being bought privately or ceded to important noblemen favoured by Henry, often now have completely different non-religious uses - Woburn being an example.

Hope that answers it !

[CraigC]

1. Bangor Abbey
2. Bath Abbey
3. Bisham Abbey
4. Bourne Abbey
5. Brinkburn Priory
6. Buckland Abbey
7. Cartmel Priory
10. Delapre Abbey
11. Dore Abbey
13. Great Malvern Priory
14. Hexham Abbey

Ok, got in from the pub early, so have time to score you now :

Eleven correct answers, and again some bonus points for effort.

1.0 difficulty bonus for no.1.

1.0 bp each for nos 6, 13 and 14 on account of being "tommo favourites" (= impressive architecture).

..... and one more bonus point for no.10, which being in Northants means that you were able to recognise it but four Distinguished Members weren't - probably due to the total lack of any sheep in the picture. ;) ;D

The final result of this quiz :

[glow=red,2,300]CraigC 20pts [/glow]

(Points entered into Quiz-mania).