Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. The building itself was a Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, the building is no longer an abbey or
Saint-Amand Abbey "Annales sancti Amandi", a set of annals of the Frankish kingdom, also originate from Saint-Amand. The abbey was declared national property in 1789, and mostly demolished between 1797 and 1820. The former courthouse ("échevinage") and the exuberantly decorated church tower, which now accommodates a faience museum, survive and can still be visited. Saint-Amand Abbey Saint-Amand Abbey ("Abbaye de Saint-Amand"), once known as Elno, Elnon or Elnone Abbey, is a former Benedictine abbey in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Nord, France. The abbey was founded sometime in the 630s in what was once a great tract of uninhabited land in the Vicoigne Forest between the