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  1. Which large and well-preserved Cistercian monastery is located approximately 3 miles south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire?
  2. Which ruined abbey in Wales is considered one of the greatest monastic ruins in the UK and is associated with a William Wordsworth poem?
  3. Which abbey, now in ruins, was founded by William the Conqueror in 1070 to commemorate a famous battle?
  4. Which famous abbey inspired Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula?
  5. Name the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner?
  6. What was the process by which King Henry VIII closed and destroyed Catholic monasteries, abbeys, and convents?
  7. The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Somerset is commonly known by what name?
  8. Which abbey is said to be the final resting place of King Arthur?
  9. Which ruined Scottish abbey, founded in 1128, is the traditional burial place of Scottish royalty?
  10. The Viking Age began on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the abbey on which island?
  11. On which island off the coast of South Wales, south of Tenby, is an abbey of the Trappists located?
  12. Columba founded an important abbey on which island in the Inner Hebrides?


Answers



  1. Fountains Abbey
  2. Tintern Abbey
  3. Battle Abbey
  4. Whitby Abbey
  5. Geoffrey Chaucer (the author of The Canterbury Tales)
  6. The Dissolution of the Monasteries
  7. Bath Abbey
  8. Glastonbury Abbey
  9. Holyrood Abbey
  10. Lindisfarne (also known as Holy Island)
  11. Caldey Island
  12. Iona