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	Cloister - LoveToKnow 1911
		According to the Benedictine arrangement, which from its suitability to the requirements of monastic life was generally adopted in the West, one side of the cloister was formed by the church, the refectory occupying the side opposite to it, that the worshippers might have the least annoyance from the noise or smell of the repasts.
		This magnificent cloister consists of four ambulatories as wide and lofty as the nave of a church, erected in 1278 by Giovanni Pisano round a cemetery composed of soil brought from Palestine by Archbishop Lanfranchi in the middle of the 12th century.
		The cloister of a religious house was the scene of a large part of the life of the inmates of a monastery.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cloister (1288 words)

	Domus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A domus was the form of house in ancient Rome and all the cities of the Empire that rich patrician families owned.
		The main entrance to the house would face the street, consisting of a double-door, behind which a short passageway gave into the atrium.
		The back part of the house was centered around the peristyle much as the front centered on the atrium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Domus (483 words)

	Ephrata Cloister
		Cloistered living was austere, members wore plain white hooded cloaks to disassociate themselves from the distraction of individual clothing styles.
		Most living quarters or cells in the Sister's House were very small with a hard wood bench for a bed and a solid wooden block for a pillow.
		The original cloister was brick encased in 1814 and officially incorporated in 1823.
	www.cob-net.org /cloister.htm (4577 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cloister
		On the other hand, the law of cloister does not apply to houses which are simply hired by religious, and which cannot therefore he looked upon as fixed and definitive homes, nor to the Villa-houses to which the religious go for recreation on fixed days or for a few weeks every year.
		Finally, it may be added that it is for the provincial superior to fix the limits of the cloister and the point at which it begins, in comformity with the usages of his order and with the local needs; of course his power is limited by the dispositions of the law.
		It may be affirmed, as a matter of fact, that the cloister is often relaxed among Eastern monks, especially the schismatics; the exclusion of women, however, is very rigorous in the twenty convents of Mt. Athos and among the Egyptian monks.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04060a.htm (4207 words)

	Ephrata Cloister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
		The first schism from the general body occurred in 1728 - the Seventh Day Dunkers, whose distinctive principle was that the seventh day was the true Sabbath.
		In 1732, a semi-monastic community (the Camp of the Solitary) with a convent (the Sister House) and a monastery (the Brother House) was established at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ephrata_Cloister (570 words)

	Portugal tours. Oporto and Lisbon tours in Portugal. Guided travel and sightseeing tours of Portugal. Cheap private ...
		Gothic cloister, Henry the navigator cloister or cemetery cloister: it dates from the 15th century and it was a cemetery when it was constructed.
		Not exactly in this cloister but in John III cloister): all this composition is on the shoulders of a single man (a Portuguese, a protagonist of all the effort of the discoveries who didn't get any profits!) who looks like being crushed by the weight of the window.
		The window is flanked by two buttresses (here or in the south façade of the church in John III cloister) representing the symbols of the order of Garther (with a sculpted buckle) and of the Golden Fleece.
	www.lisboatours.com /Coimbra_Tomar_Evora.html (3689 words)

	Watton Priory -- paper by St. John
		The claustrum or cloister was oblong in form, and measured 98 feet from east to west and 113 feet from north to south.
		The house in question consists of three blocks: (i.) that on the north already noticed under the name of the "olde dinyng chamber;" (ii.) a smaller and later block to the south; and (iii.) a larger and still later block on the west.
		The house had formerly a wing at the south end, also of three stories, projecting from it westwards just north of the turret, but it was taken down about 1840, and all traces of the junction carefully effaced.
	www.boyntons.us /yorkshire/places/watton/wattonpriorystjohn.html (10524 words)

	Coombe Abbey - Chapter 8
		The eastern wall of the cloister is the principal visual reminder of the early monastic structures.
		Above the cloister windows he built a timber and plaster facade with bay windows, presumably considering that the wall was not strong enough to bear the weight of stone.
		The only parts of this house remaining substantially unaltered are the facade of the west wing which overlooks the courtyard, and the southern face of the west wing, which had an extra ground floor window added on the end of the cloister alley at the beginning of the twentieth century.
	www.coventry-walks.org.uk /coombe/ca-ch8.html (5888 words)

	Double Houses (Post - Conquest) - 3 General Description
		The nuns' cloisters were generally to the north (Sempringham i, Watton) or the south (Sempringham ii, Bullington, Chicksands, Bedfordshire) of the church, whereas the canons' cloister was some distance away and oriented along any of the cardinal points in relation to the church.
		The nuns' cloister (29.9m x 34.4m) was to the north of the main conventual church, which was 62.8m in length and transected by a median wall.
		Two standard monastic cloisters and two churches, one of which was conventual (divided longitudinally by a median wall into parallel aisles, one for the nuns and lay-sisters, the other for the canons) and the other was a canons' chapel, perhaps with a gallery for secular guests.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /mpp/mcd/sub/dblh3.htm (2812 words)

	Great Places to Stay - Cloister House, Melrose, The Scottish Borders
		The Cloister House, formerly the Manse, was built for the Minister of the "new" Melrose Parish church, which had been built in 1810.
		For the Cloister House, expert craftsmen John Gray and William Clark used local pink rubble stone for the walls complemented with cream stone which could be carved for the window and door surrounds.
		The entire house is beautifully furnished with antiques and period furniture, paintings, lamps, ornaments, quality fabrics, upholstery and drapes, as well as a gorgeous freestanding Victorian-style roll top bath all provide a most comfortable and elegant place to stay.
	www.rampantscotland.com /stay/bldev_stay_cloister.htm (1624 words)

	Cloisters
		The east walk is adjacent to the south transept and leads to the chapter house, both seen here behind the cloister.
		The chapter house and part of the south transept are seen behind the cloister walk.
		Entrance is currently to the shop, located in the former plumbery between the north walk of the cloister and the south aisle of the cathedral nave.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /~cew9f/cloister.xml (781 words)

	Toulouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perhaps the one for which Baudis is most famous is the subway of Toulouse: line A of the subway was opened in 1993, and Baudis succeeded in having work started on line B (scheduled to open in 2007), despite strong local opposition to the anticipated costs.
		Toulouse is thus recovering step by step its former rank as a major European metropolis, but it faces increasing challenges: how to accommodate such a rapid growth, how to upgrade transport and develop housing and infrastructures, in short how to reinvent the city in the 21st century.
		Carlos Gardel (Charles Gardes) was born in Toulouse in 1890 and his house is still in city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toulouse (2616 words)

	The King's School, Gloucester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pupils are divided into Houses, in Senior School they are Laud, Wheeler and Serlo.
		There are House competitions all year round, including House Drama, House Cricket and the Inter-House Athletics, held at the Prince of Wales stadium in Cheltenham.
		Supplementing these larger events are once weekly activities held in the second half of a lunch break, the makeup of which changes from term to term, and which vary from volleyball to bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_King's_School,_Gloucester (229 words)

	Aberglasney House and Gardens in Wales - Cloister garden
		The house itself stands a little apart as the fourth side, loosely closing off the rectangle.
		For a long time the vegetation here was so dense and the stonework in such decay that it was almost impossible to see exactly what the structures consisted of - let alone to guess their purpose.
		Opposite the house the western range shelters a long arcaded walkway - the cloister or cryptoporticus - but the two side ranges are solid, pierced by deep archways.
	www.aberglasney.org /index.php?page=cloister_garden (411 words)

	Veruela
		Pedro de Atarés did not live to see the completion of the buildings, whose construction took more than twenty years, but before his death he was enrolled among the Cistercians, who were dwelling in the partly-finished cloister.
		The chapter house at the southern side of the cloister, an exact representation of the Westminster cloister, is Byzantine.
		The great buildings, including church, monastery, house, and cloister, constructed at different times and in different styles, surrounded by a wall that dates back to feudal times, present an imposing and beautiful appearance.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/veruela.html (558 words)

	Vivat Trust \| The Vivat Properties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The largest of Vivat’s properties, The Cloister House was built as a manse, or residence for the local minister, in 1815 by John Smith of Darnick.
		This four-bedroomed house with light, airy rooms has been furnished in the Georgian style with open fires in the drawing room and formal dining room and provides elegant accommodation for families and friends alike.
		The Cloister House, awarded 4* Self Catering by the Scottish Tourist Board, is the ideal place to enjoy a tranquil break in the unspolit Scottish Borders.
	www.vivat.org.uk /buildings/property.cfm?PropID=Prop4&chunkID=firstTime (188 words)

	The Cloisters, New York
		The Cloisters house the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of art and architecture from medieval Europe.
		Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals.
		Fifty highlights from the collection housed at The Cloisters are presented online, organized first by culture and, within cultures, chronologically.
	www.ny.com /museums/cloisters.html (236 words)

	Cloisters - Introduction
		The chapter house was an important daily gathering place where business and chapters of the rules was discussed.
		The chapter house was so named because the monks would sit and listen to one monk read one chapter aloud from the monastic rule book.
		The architecture in the chapter house is Romanesque with Gothic elements.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/medny/cloister1.html (710 words)

	Touring Reading Abbey on Britannia: The Cloister
		The Cloister was a quadrangular covered walkway, surrounding a central open garden, that connected all the buildings of the monk's inner ward.
		It was used for rest and exercise, but also as a pleasant area in the sun where the monks did much of their writing, whether it be merely their accounts, copying some great illuminated religious work or composition of music.
		Reading Abbey's cloister has completely gone, though many of its beautiful column capitals have been found during excavation and can be seen in Reading Museum.
	www.britannia.com /tours/berks/rdgab06.html (167 words)

	History of the Joseph House
		Mary Elizabeth and Patricia Guidera, a Joseph House volunteer, follow their call to begin a vowed religious community that would continue the ministry to the poor.
		Joseph Cloister is established in Princess Anne, Maryland to provide a place of quiet and prayer for the Little Sisters.
		The Joseph House ministry in Baltimore is transferred to Salisbury.
	www.thejosephhouse.org /history.htm (682 words)

	Cloister House - Accommodation Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Cloister House is smaller than Albion house, but the rooms in Cloister house are bigger than the rooms in Albion house.
		I would say that Cloister house is a nice place to stay especially I have to study on Jubilee Campus.
		Sainsbury's is just 15 minutes walking distance from Cloister house, therefore, I don't have to go to city center for food.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /accommodation/cloister-house (137 words)

	EDINBURGH - Online Information article about EDINBURGH
		Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger.
		Parliament House i.'I.mmerslty and Museum designs by Robert Adam, stands at the east end of Princes Street.
		The Scotsman newspaper is housed in an ornate structure in North Bridge Street, the building of which necessitated the demolition of many old alleys and wynds, such as Fleshmarket Close and Milne Square.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ECG_EMS/EDINBURGH.html (3241 words)

	St Andrew's Cathedral School :: Westminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The House system in St Andrew’s was inaugurated in 1953 with three Houses, namely Canterbury, Salisbury and York.
		Westminster House was established in 1996 to accommodate the growth of the School.
		The Abbey is located in the City of Westminster, a borough of greater London, on the northern bank of the Thames River near the Houses of Parliament.
	www.sacs.nsw.edu.au /page.php?id=90 (617 words)

	Wimbledon - Cloister Ho
		Private retirement housing remains the ideal choice for people who wish to continue living independently in their own home, whilst enjoying the benefit of support if needed.
		Cloister House is excellently situated within the local community.
		As a leading member of the Association of Retirement Housing Managers, HPML is committed to improving standards on all their estates.
	www.hanover.org.uk /default.aspx?page=740 (589 words)

	The lost World of the Villa Lou Sueil
		Flights of steps were expertly made with just the right amount of rough-hewn rusticity, and paths of finely crushed gravel or pressed earth snaked between the almond and olive trees, among massed plantings of spring bulbs.
		The cloister garden was serenely formal, with herringbone-patterned brick paths criss-crossing a four-square design of tiny lawns edged by low box hedges, the composition focusing on a central font planted with seasonal flowers.
		Immediately west of the villa and its cloister, Duchêne made a formal parterre known as the Italian or Knot garden, fashioned in low box hedging and infilled with contrastingly coloured gravels of brick-red and cream.
	www.mediterraneangardensociety.org /journal/42-lou-sueil.html (392 words)

	Great Places to Stay in Scotland
		Boath House, Auldearn, near Nairn, Inverness-shire - named by the AA as one of the top 200 hotels in the UK.
		Cameron House - on the shores of Loch Lomond.
		Cloister House, Melrose - formerly a manse house, beside historic Melrose Abbey.
	www.rampantscotland.com /stay/bldev_stay_index.htm (1112 words)

	Touring Reading Abbey on Britannia: The Chapter House
		The Chapter House was the general assembly area for the monks of any Abbey.
		It was one of the largest in the country and, as such, was used several times in the mid-15th century as the meeting place of the House of Commons when the plague forced them out of London.
		Reading's Chapter House stands in the usual position on the east side of the cloister, almost adjoining the south transept of the Abbey Church, You can still make out the curving of its now collapsed vault.
	www.britannia.com /tours/berks/rdgab07.html (227 words)

	Pictures of Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When the wrathful native Irish, driven to desperation by Anglo-Norman tyranny, burned the outskirts of Dublin, in 1283, the cathedral caught fire and the steeple, chapter house, cloister and dormitory were consumed.
		It is supposed that the remains shown in the picture are those of the original chapter house, as they beat all the marks of very ancient origin.
		Some antiquries hold that they belong to the cloister, but all agree that they are the most interesting archaeological remains of ancient Dublin.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /other/abl/etext/irish/pictures203/p396.html (160 words)

	History, Ethnic -- Ephrata Cloister
		While the householders were farmers or craftsmen who lived nearby, the brothers and sisters lived at the Cloister in log, stone, and half-timbered buildings reminiscent of their Rhenish homeland.
		Though the Cloister's Print Shop was probably housed within the Brother's House complex, today it occupies its own 19th century building.
		The Solitary House is typical of the residence that sheltered members before the large dormitories were built.
	www.fieldtrip.com /pa/77336600.htm (434 words)

	Dorchester Abbey, Oxon, Website
		The Museum has displays in the Abbey, notably the newly opened Cloister Gallery, and in the Old School in the adjoining Abbey Guest House.
		The Cloister Gallery display, described as the best of its kind in the country, tells the story of the Abbey through an interpreted collection of carved and moulded medieval stonework.
		The displays and artefacts in the Abbey Guest House pick out special features of the village of Dorchester-on-Thames and its environs, both past and present; the area has been an important centre of civilisation since Neolithic times, and the attractive village buildings are regularly used as sets for period films and TV.
	www.dorchester-abbey.org.uk /museum.htm (305 words)

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