Ruined abbeys and monasteries

monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK

ruined Cistercian abbey in Yorkshire, England, UK

Glendalough (; ) is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin. From 1825 to 1957, the head of the Glendalough Valley was the site of a galena lead mine. Glendalough is also a recreational area for picnics, for walking along networks of maintained trails of varying difficulty, and also for rock climbing.

painting by Caspar David Friedrich at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

former Benedictine abbey at Somerset, England, United Kingdom

monastery ruins in Holyrood, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Klášter () is a municipality and village in Plzeň-South District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants. The village was founded inside the ruins of a monastery, which was destroyed in the 15th century.

abbey

Grade I listed ruined abbey in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales

abbey located in Seine-Maritime, in France

Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England, UK

partly ruined monastery in Melrose, Scotland

church in Fife, Scotland, UK

ruined abbey in the English town of Reading, founded in 1121 by King Henry I

monastery in Belgium

The Monasterboice () ruins are the remains of an early Christian monastic settlement in County Louth in Ireland, north of Drogheda. The ruins are a national monument of Ireland and also give their name to the local village and to a civil parish of the same name.

ruined medieval abbey in Yorkshire, England, UK

former Benedictine abbey in Calw

cultural heritage monument of Kosovo

former abbey in Villers-la-Ville, Belgium

Cistercian monastery in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

first Cistercian abbey to be built in Ireland

former abbey in Arles, France

building in London, England, UK

Armenian church in Azerbaijan

village and civil parish in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England

abbey in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK

former Cistercian monastery in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, in ruins

grade I listed building in Ceredigion

abbey located in Pas-de-Calais, in France

Archeological site of Bangladesh

Disibodenberg () is a monastery ruin near Staudernheim in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was founded on the eponymous hill near the convergence of the Glan and the Nahe rivers by Saint Disibod. Hildegard of Bingen, who wrote Disibod's Hagiography "Vita Sancti Disibodi", lived in Disibodenberg for 39 years. Today, it lies within the "Nature Protection Area Disibodenberg".

mountain in Heidelberg, Germany

ruined abbey in Denbighshire, Wales

building or structure in Coimbra, Portugal

ruined Cistercian monastery

abbey in Cumbria, England, UK

cultural property

monastery in Germany

abbey in Hampshire, UK

Benedictine abbey

Jaulian (; meaning Seat of Saints) is a ruined Buddhist monastery dating from the 2nd century CE, located in Taxila, in Pakistan.

Abbey in South Wales, UK

abbey in Stirling, Scotland, UK

Cistercian abbey in Surrey, England, UK

partly ruined abbey in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK

Benedictine monastery

ruin of an abbey near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales

abbey in Beaulieu, Hampshire, England, UK

late medieval Franciscan friary in Co. Clare

abbey in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, UK

historic site in Scotland

16th century monastery in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

building in Selje, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

monastery in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK

also Petersthal, formerly Petersberg, near Oberdollendorf, after which the Hotel Petersberg is named

monastery in Donetsk

former cistercian abbey in Ireland

house of Augustinian canons

Grade I listed priory in Hambleton, United Kingdom