The word "abbey" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a monastery or convent that is under the authority of an abbot or a nun respectively, especially a place of religious seclusion. For example: "The abbey was tucked away in the rolling hills of the countryside."
The landscape glittered with frost but that light show was nothing compared with the abbey itself.
Both men died in May 1471, though Edward was killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury and was buried at the abbey there.
As the abbey loomed out of the darkness that first night, red and blue light spilled out through stained glass windows, throwing a ring of kaleidoscopic patterns on to the ground around it and giving the illusion of an ethereal stage.
Related: Nicola Sturgeon offers new deal to help Ed Miliband into No 10 In the concrete car park directly across from the ancient abbey of Paisley – resting place of the royal house of Stuart and a place where 19th-century radicals once plotted an overthrow of the government – Black's supporters are more warmly dressed in Puffa jackets and scarves.
The feeling soon passed and I was rewarded the next morning when I started the New Year, hangover-free, with a walk to the abbey in the velvety, pre-dawn gloom.
The women at the manor in turn envied the ones at the abbey with the run of the beautiful park, and those who kept their own ponies in the stables and went hunting.
There will be haikus on Hadrian's Wall and a steampunk jewellery workshop in Edinburgh, stargazing amid the ruins of a 12th century abbey in Wales and a swing band in the Roman baths.
As for the young man himself, all he can offer them is the faint recollection of an abbey.
+33 5 5500 8667, gite.lachapelle.free.fr Villelongue is a group of 17th-century buildings on medieval foundations around a courtyard garden, all part of the 12th-century Cistercian abbey at St Martin le Vieil whose ruined church looms beyond.
I strapped on my head torch and trooped up to the abbey along a narrow lane lined with trees.
Stop off along the way at Calke Abbey to join the National Trust's seven-night working holiday maintaining pathways and constructing tree guards.
