• abbatial: Pertaining to an abbey or an abbot.
• abbey: The group of buildings forming the dwelling place of a society of monks or nuns. 2. A place of worship connected now or formerly with a monastic establishment. 3. A dwelling now or formerly the residence of an abbot or abbess.
• fang chang: A building, within a Chinese temple compound, used as the abbot’s quarters.
• hojo: The abbot’s quarters in a Japanese Zen temple.
• anchorage: Cell or retreat of an anchorite, or person who has withdrawn from this world. They are often found over vestries on the north side of chancels in the North of England, but could be sited elsewhere, usually in churchyards. 2. Any of various means, as embedment length or hooked bars, for developing tension or compression in a reinforcing bar on each side of a critical section in order to prevent bond failure or splitting. 3. A mechanical device for locking a stressed tendon in position and delivering the prestressing force to the concrete, either permanently in a posttensioned member or temporarily during hardening of a pretensioned concrete member. 4. A means for binding a structural member to another or to its foundation, often to resist uplifting and horizontal forces.
• church house: A building used for the social and secular activities of a parish.
• cloistral: Pertaining to a cloister. See claustral.
• medieval garden: European monasteries incorporated buildings with cloisters, the roofed ambulatory around the garth derived from the Roman atrium surrounded by a peristyle: Early-Christian religious foundations had such attributes, and herb- and vegetable-gardens were part of 6th c. Benedictine monastic establishments…
• beguinage: Establishment of, or house for, Beguines, members of a lay sisterhood formed in the 12th c. in the Netherlands.
• greeting house: A reception room or place of meeting connected with a church or convent in Early Christian times.
• guest house: In a large establishment, such as a convent, especially in the Middle Ages, a building prepared for the use of strangers. 2. A place of public entertainment; an inn.
• nunnery: A convent for females.
• bead house: A dwelling for poor religious people, located near the church in which the founder was interred, and for whose soul the beadsmen or beadswomen were required to pray.
• diaconia: A chamber or building dependent upon a church and placed under the care of a deacon, for the relief of the poor, aged, or inform; either as a hospital, asylum, or place for dispensing charity. The term is mediaeval, thought it is said to be still used in Germany.
• glebe: The land, and by extension the residence, of the holder of an ecclesiastical benefice from the Church of England.
• hermitage: Dwelling of a hermit or religious recluse, in the medieval period often associated with religious foundations, endowed for an anchorite in a churchyard or some other place, often attached to a monastery, and frequently associated with an oratory. 2. 18th c. habitation in a lonely situation, often in a landscaped park, occupied by a paid ‘hermit’. 3. Cottage orné, primitive hut, or rustic residence in a landscape intended as a mnemonic of a hermit’s house. 4. Bower, gazebo, or secluded place, often associated with a grotto or cave, artificial rock-work, or some such construction in a 18th c. elegiac landscape.
• alien house: An establishment dependent upon a foreign monastery or convent; sometimes, a branch of the parent abbey, with monks, etc.; sometimes a mere building for the guardian or steward.
• alien priory: An establishment dependent upon a foreign monastery or convent; sometimes, a branch of the parent abbey, with monks, etc.; sometimes a mere building for the guardian or steward.
• basadi: A Jain temple or monastery (India).
• Benedictine: Monastic Order based on the rules of St Benedict, who established the Abbey at Monte Cassino from which the arts of agriculture, architecture, and writing were disseminated…
• calefactory: The heated sitting-room of a monastery.
• Carthusian: Of or belonging to a religious Order of monks founded by St. Bruno…
• cell: Same as cella. 2. A single small cavity surrounded partially or completely by walls. 3. A segment of a ribbed vault. 4. The small sleeping apartment of a monk or a prisoner. 5. The molded open space in a concrete masonry unit.
• cellular: Of or pertaining to cells, or having the character of cells, as the cellular system of prison planning, or a cellular monastery. 2. Constructed with or upon a system of cells, as a cellular wrought-iron beam.
• certosa: A monastery of the Carthusian mons, especially in Italy.
• charter house: A Carthusian monastery, the term being a mispronouncing of the French chartreuse. Especially, a famous foundational school formerly occupying the site of an old monastery in London, now removed to the country.
• charterhouse: A Carthusian monastery.
• chartreuse: A monastery of the Carthusian monks, especially in France.
• Cistercian: Monastic Order founded at Citeaux, Burgundy, as an offshoot of the Benedictine rule…
• clausura: That part of a monastery or convent occupied by the monks or nuns, and not open to the public.
• clausure: Convent or monastery, especially the parts occupied by the monks or nuns to which the laity was not admitted.
• cluniac: Pertaining to the monastic order of Cluny.
• coenobium: A community of monks living under one roof.
• common house: That part of a monastery in which a fire was kept for the monks during the winter.
• common-house: Calefactory, or heated room in a monastery, also called the common-room. Precedent for university common-rooms.
• convent: A religious community: friars, monks, or nuns (now usually nuns). 2. A group of buildings occupied by such a community.
• conventual: Belonging to a convent, monastery, or nunnery, as a conventual church, conventual buildings; of the style and character of a convent. The term monastic is preferable in referring to the architectural style of the period when monasticism was at its highest development, and, indeed, in speaking of the architectural style of conventual buildings.
• covent: A convent or monastery.
• dortour: A dormitory, especially in a monastery.
• double monastery: A monastery and a nunnery adjacent to each other, sharing the same church and under the rule of the same superior.
• fo ssu: See ssu.
• fraiter: A common eating room or hall in a monastery. Also see fraitor, frater house.
• fraitor: A common eating room or hall in a monastery. Also see fraiter, frater house.
• frater: A common eating room or hall in a monastery.
• frater house: A common eating room or hall in a monastery.
• fraterhouse: Monastic refectory.
• friary: A monastery for the occupancy of a class of monks known as friars.
• glebe house: A house provided for the occupancy of the incumbent of an ecclesiastical living.
• gumpha: In Indian architecture, a monastery.
• hatto: A rectangular, one-story building used as a lecture hall for the instruction of monks in a Japanese Zen temple.
• jikido: The refectory in an ancient Buddhist Temple.
• khangah: The Muslim equivalent of a monastery; a retreat for dervishes. Also see khanka.
• kioum: In Burmah, a Buddhist monastery.
• kodo: A rectangular one-story building used as a lecture hall for the instruction of Buddhist monks.
• kuan: A Taoist monastery consisting of twin main halls connected by a covered corridor forming an H-shape.
• lama ssu: See ssu.
• lavra: An assemblage of cells for monks around a common center which contains a church and sometimes a refectory.
• loctorium: A place for conversation; especially the parlor of a monastic establishment.
• locutorium: Also see locutory.
• locutory: A place for conversation; especially the parlor of a monastic establishment.
• matha: In Indian architecture, a convent or monastery.
• minchery: A nunnery.
• misericord: In monastic architecture, a room or separate building where monastic rule was relaxed. 2. Same as miserere.
• misericorde: In monastic architecture, a refectory for the preparation and serving of flesh meat.
• monastery: The communal dwelling place of a religious order of monks.
• myncherie: Archaic name for a nunnery.
• mynchery: Archaic name for a nunnery.
• parlatory: A room in a monastic establishment where visitors may be received.
• penitentiary: A prison. 2. A small building in which the penitent of a monastic order confined himself. 3. That part of a church to which penitents were admitted during services.
• preceptory: A subordinate religious establishment of the Order of Knights Templars; a place of residence, instruction, and discipline, presided over by an officer called a knight preceptor, one of the more eminent members of the fraternity. The cells in the temple, or chief house of the Knights in London, were called the preceptories.
• sangarama: In Indian architecture, a monastery.
• ssu: A Chinese temple in a monastery; special types include: of ssu (Buddhist temple), ch’ing chen ssu (Islamic temple), and lama ssu (Lamaist temple).
• tekkiya: A communal dwelling of dervishes or Sufi monks; smaller than a khangah.
• trapeznaya: A refectory in the monastery of a Russian Orthodox church.
• vat: Buddhist monastery in Cambodia. See wat.
• vihara: A Buddhist or Jain monastery in Indian architecture.
• wat: A Buddhist monastery or temple in Thailand or Cambodia.
• xenodochium: A room in a monastery for entertaining strangers.
• bishop’s palace: The official residence of a bishop; generally connected with, or very near, the cathedral church of his diocese. Buildings of this character exist in most of the cathedral towns of the continent of Europe, and are sometimes large and of great splendor.
• Episcopal palace: The official residence of a bishop; generally connected with, or very near, the cathedral church of his diocese. Buildings of this character exist in most of the cathedral towns of the continent of Europe, and are sometimes large and of great splendor.
• parish house: A building in connection with a church, where activities not so closely identified with worship are held.
• parsonage: The dwelling of a clergyman, often owned by the church he serves.
• parsonage house: The dwelling of a clergyman, often owned by the church he serves.
• rectory: The dwelling of a priest.

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