Congregation of Savigny
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The monastic Congregation of Savigny started in the abbey of Savigny, situated in northern France, on the confines of Normandy and Brittany, in the Diocese of Coutances. It originated in 1105 when Vit
Savigny Abbey
Furness Abbey, England
Buckfast Abbey, 2013
Buckfast Abbey
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Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Buckfast first became home to an abbey in 1018. The first Benedictine abbey was followed b
Congregation of Savigny
…Vitalis, Henry I of England, established and generously endowed twenty-nine monasteries of this Congregation in his dominions. Early in the 12th century, Buckfast Abbey was incorporated into the Benedictine Congregation of Savigny. The monasteries of Basingwerk (Flintshire) and Neath (Glamorgan) in Wales were founded…
Buckfast Abbey, Exterior I
The nave of the Abbey church is in a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles
The abbey by A. R. Quinton, c. 1920, with unfinished tower
Fritillaria meleagris in the grounds of the abbey.