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Quiz
- Which large and well-preserved Cistercian monastery is located approximately 3 miles south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire?
- Which ruined abbey in Wales is considered one of the greatest monastic ruins in the UK and is associated with a William Wordsworth poem?
- Which abbey, now in ruins, was founded by William the Conqueror in 1070 to commemorate a famous battle?
- Which famous abbey inspired Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula?
- Name the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner?
- What was the process by which King Henry VIII closed and destroyed Catholic monasteries, abbeys, and convents?
- The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Somerset is commonly known by what name?
- Which abbey is said to be the final resting place of King Arthur?
- Which ruined Scottish abbey, founded in 1128, is the traditional burial place of Scottish royalty?
- The Viking Age began on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the abbey on which island?
- On which island off the coast of South Wales, south of Tenby, is an abbey of the Trappists located?
- Columba founded an important abbey on which island in the Inner Hebrides?
Answers
- Fountains Abbey
- Tintern Abbey
- Battle Abbey
- Whitby Abbey
- Geoffrey Chaucer (the author of The Canterbury Tales)
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Bath Abbey
- Glastonbury Abbey
- Holyrood Abbey
- Lindisfarne (also known as Holy Island)
- Caldey Island
- Iona