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• “His bones and heart were taken back to France and kept enshrined in the abbey-church of St. Denis, until they were scattered at the time of the Revolution.”

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• “Of the other churches of Angers, the principal are St. Serge, an abbey-church of the 12th and 15th centuries, and La Trinité (12th century).”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

• “The prefecture occupies the buildings of the famous abbey of St. Aubin; in its courtyard are elaborately sculptured arcades of the 11th and 12th centuries, from which period dates the tower, the only survival of the splendid abbey-church.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

• “And Caxton would no more set up his press in a chapel than in the abbey-church itself.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850

• “The almonry was one of the courts of the abbey, (situated directly west of the abbey-church, and not east, as Dr. Dibdin surmised); it contained a chapel dedicated to”

  Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850

• “From a misapprehension of the passage in St.w, a current opinion has obtained that the first English press was erected within the abbey-church, and in the chapel of St. Anne; and Dr. Dibdin conjectured that the chapel of St. Anne stood on the site of Henry VII. 's chapel.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850

• “The fine old monastery, and the ruined early Gothic abbey-church of Chorin on the Stettin Railway, the burial-place of the”

  In and Around Berlin

• “The sun had set and the sea-twilight was rolling in when we dipped down from the town of Montreuil to the valley below, where the towers of an ancient abbey-church rise above terraced orchards.”

  Fighting France

• “Just outside the city he built the abbey-church of St. Eucharius (St. Mathias), to which Otto II contributed generously.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy

• “The abbey-church of Cluny was on a scale commensurate with the greatness of the congregation, and was regarded as one of the wonders of the Middle Ages.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

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