Hi, welcome to my site about Abbeys. Click on the links below to go to the different questions:-
- Why did people join the abbey?
- What are the differences between 'choir monks and 'lay brothers'?
- What did monks and nuns have to promise when they joined; and did they keep them?
- How were the sites chosen for each abbey?
- Who paid for the building to be built?
- Who built the actual abbey itself?
- How did the abbey become wealthy?
- How did the abbey help the village, town, or city where it was situated?
- The abbey layout
- What did the monks do all day? / What was their daily routine?
- Why were abbeys so important in Yorkshire?