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  • Thumbnail for Cloister
    along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern...
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    The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated...
    76 KB (9,068 words) - 14:01, 1 May 2024
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    Forces. The cloisters were restored in the 20th century, and the stained glass windows contain the images of some 130 saints. The cloister garth contains...
    74 KB (7,648 words) - 20:18, 11 May 2024
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    cloister is duly placed on the south side of the church, and the chief buildings occupy their usual positions around it. However, the cloister garth (quadrangle)...
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  • up cloister in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cloister is a covered walkway with an open colonnade on one side that faces a quadrangle or garth. Cloister...
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    both physical and spiritual needs was carried over to the cloister garth. The cloister garth, a claustrum consisting of the viridarium, a rectangular plot...
    78 KB (9,612 words) - 15:15, 26 March 2024
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    through which the bells were hoisted. The range of buildings east of the cloister garth and south of the church comprises the sacristy and an inner room opening...
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  • Look up Garth or garth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Garth may refer to: Garth, Alberta Garth, Bridgend, a village in south Wales Garth railway...
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  • A garth is an enclosed quadrangle or yard, especially one surrounded by a cloister (Middle English; Old Norse garþr, garðr; akin to Anglo-Saxon geard)...
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    Bedfordshire, England Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk, England. A labyrinth in the Cloister Garth. Laid to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II in...
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    It was dedicated to St Andrew and stood at the site of the cathedral's cloisters, where some excavated remains can be seen. The font in the cathedral's...
    123 KB (12,207 words) - 12:04, 4 May 2024
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    cusped windows to left and to right, with central arched doorway to cloister garth. Glazing bar sashes on brick 1st floor. Other exterior faces now within...
    196 KB (16,327 words) - 10:01, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Cloisters (Letchworth)
    originally consisted of a large half-oval 'open-air room' called the `Cloisters Garth' with an open colonnade to the south and large glazed bays to the north;...
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    suggested solutions. A commemorative fountain in Westminster Abbey’s cloister garth was dedicated for Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown after Evensong on Tuesday...
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    and the site of the priory church and other structures including the cloister garth were recorded beneath the garden of the present house which incorporates...
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    outside and an open arcade on the inside, looking over a courtyard or "cloister garth". They may be vaulted or have timber roofs. The arcades are often richly...
    132 KB (16,405 words) - 04:14, 21 May 2024
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    and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The main part of the cloister garth continues to be a well-tended site mostly laid to lawn in the quadrangle...
    21 KB (2,084 words) - 02:42, 17 April 2024
  • for England, retrieved 28 July 2023 Historic England, "Fountain in Cloister Garth at Newstead Abbey, Newstead (1236816)", National Heritage List for England...
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  • Thumbnail for Sherborne Abbey
    principal buildings of a Benedictine abbey were always grouped around the cloister garth. They are usually built to the south of their respective abbey, but...
    56 KB (6,928 words) - 07:20, 14 May 2024
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    though the details, in particular the tracery of the openings facing the cloister garth, did change. Following the destruction caused by the collapse of the...
    51 KB (4,973 words) - 01:40, 12 May 2024
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