Monastery
An enclosed group of buildings where a religious community both lives and worships, planned around a cloister with the daily offices setting the circulation.
- Also called
- abbey · priory · convent
- Seen in the wild
- None
- Broader
- None
- Narrower
- None
- Usage
- Not measured
- Provenance
- authored@instruments/taxonomy ADR 0001
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- typology.monastery
- Note
- NOT parented to `church`, though it contains one. The defining programme is residential and enclosed; a monastery is not a kind of church any more than a college is a kind of library.
Crosswalks
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