Sentence examples for constructing the abbey from inspiring English sources

Work immediately began on constructing the abbey church, a task that took many decades.

Workers constructing the building.

The authors claim that the Berkley family, who acquired the lands of the Abbey, constructed the building as a prospect tower.

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He was buried in a magnificent tomb in the newly constructed Faversham Abbey in Kent but - in what became a pattern - it was demolished on the orders of Henry VIII.

The abbey was constructed in 657AD - shortly before the creation of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the golden age of Northumbria - when King Oswy offering land to his kinswoman, Hild, then abbess of Hartlepool, in gratitude for a victory in a war with Mercia.

These works included a new cut near the Thames, probably the section of river between Bow Tidal Gates and Old Ford, on which no tolls were to be charged, and a pound lock was constructed at Waltham Abbey, only the second to be built in England.

It is considered that this might date from the early period of the Brookes' house, or it may have been constructed during the later years of the abbey.

The abbey grew immensely rich.

The abbey welcomes people for temporary retreats.

The abbey now houses a Benedictine community.