Starter quiz
- Archbishop Lanfranc issued instructions and guidance on how monks should carry out their duties in which document?
- The Monastic Rule of Lanfranc
- The Benediction Order of Lanfranc
- The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc ✓
- The Revisions of Lanfranc
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- Lanfranc wanted English monasteries to more strictly follow the rule of which religious order?
- The Benedictine Order ✓
- The Franciscan Order
- The Carthusian Order
- The Order of St Augustine
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- Monks from ______ Abbey objected to Lanfranc's rewording of the liturgy.
- 'Glastonbury' ✓
- The number of Benedictine monasteries in England increased from ______ in 1066 to 250 by 1135.
- '35' ✓
- The Normans changed the leaders of ______ from Anglo-Saxon to Norman abbots.
- 'monasteries' ✓
- By 1086, how many Anglo-Saxon abbots remained in England?
- 1
- 3 ✓
- 7
- 15
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Exit quiz
- Match the words with their correct definitions.
- Romanesque⇔the style of building which recalled the power of the Roman Empire ✓
- cloister⇔covered walkway enclosing a courtyard, found in a religious building ✓
- dormitory⇔a large room designed for many people to sleep in ✓
- refectory⇔a room used for communal meals ✓
- Castle Acre Priory was built in the Romanesque style, with ______ elements.
- 'Gothic' ✓
- What type of patterns were added above doorways and arches to add to their decoration?
- polka dot and striped patterns
- flowers and other floral patterns
- chevron and other geometric patterns ✓
- circular and square patterns
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- To keep walls strong but still looking Romanesque, what architectural feature did many Norman buildings feature?
- sturdy roofs
- blind arcades ✓
- multiple arches ✓
- large windows
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- Complete the sentence: Castle Acre Priory had semi-circular spaces called ______ at the eastern end to make space for more altars for the monks who had qualified as priests to say masses.
- 'apses' ✓
- Which buildings were located slightly apart from the main buildings at Castle Acre Priory?
- the chapel and the scriptorium
- the refectory and the church
- the dormitory and the cloister
- the kitchen and the infirmary ✓
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Key learning points
- Castle Acre Priory was built in the Romanesque style, with Gothic elements.
- Castle Acre Priory was designed to meet the needs of a community of monks.
Common misconception
Because the priory is so large, it must have been home to many hundreds of monks.
In fact, only 20 to 30 monks lived at Castle Acre Priory at any one time, and the original number when the priory was first being built was only around 6.
Keywords
Romanesque - the style of building that was fashionable in Western Europe which recalled the power of the Roman Empire
Cloister - a covered walkway enclosing a large open courtyard, found in a religious building
Dormitory - a large room designed for many people to sleep in
Refectory - a room used for communal meals
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