The Abbey is one of the last surviving buildings from a once great monastic complex The Augustinian Abbey of St Mary was once the largest and richest abbey in the county but was largely destroyed ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would ...

BURNHAM ABBEY, which was originally founded for a community of Augustinian canonesses in the 13th century, is on the market for £3.5 million after the final ten nuns moved out. The Abbey has most ...

Newstead Abbey was founded by Henry II as an Augustinian priory in the 12th Century The ancestral home of Lord Byron has been named as one of the world's most threatened cultural heritage sites.

Aled Jones visits Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire. Curator Simon Brown explains how the abbey began as an Augustinian priory and it is thought one of the priests was Friar Tuck, one of Robin Hood's ...

Further information: 0131 331 4857. The Abbey was founded by St. Columba in the middle ages and is the site of an Augustinian Abbey.