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4 unusual facts about The Cloisters


Castle of Westerlo

After her death it was acquired from her heirs by the Metropolitan Museum in New York for the Cloisters collection.

Fifth and Madison Avenues Line

When The Cloisters Museum is open, the M4 continues north along Margaret Corbin Drive to the entrance to the museum.

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

A part of the cloister of the monastery was moved to The Cloisters museum of Manhattan.

The Cloisters, Perth

The architectural style of the building was derived from St. James's Palace, Hampton Court, parts of Eton College, and Fulham Palace.


Flaran Abbey

In 1913, the Archaeological Society of Gers intervened so that the abbey would not end up in the architectural collection of George Grey Barnard that resulted in The Cloisters museum in New York City.


see also

Cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio

Notable is the restoration of the cloisters by Bramante; century refectory of the former became Great Hall, where he wanted to, on the Brera, the wall fresco by Callisto Piazza (1545) inspired by the Wedding at Cana, the library and chapel, with modulated by high walls sculptures Manzù.

Gorton Monastery

In the 1970s E.T. Spashett, consultant architect to the Benedictines and architect of the Church Army Chapel, Blackheath, re-designed the accommodation over the cloisters, combining cells to make small dormitories and studies, and designing a new iron gate for the cloisters.

H. Jones

His name is also on the South Atlantic Task Force Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, London, on the wall with the names of the fallen in the Falklands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College, and the Parachute Regiment Memorial at their headquarters in Aldershot; he also has a memorial in the cloisters of Eton College and a plaque on a footpath at Kingswear, Devon.

John Green Crosse

He died on 9 June 1850, and was buried in the cloisters of Norwich Cathedral.

Renaissance architecture in Portugal

The definitive abandonment of Gothic architecture and the first "pure" Renaissance structures appear later in the 16th century, under King John III, like the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Tomar (1532–40), the Porta Especiosa of Coimbra Cathedral and the Graça Church at Évora (c. 1530-1540), as well as the cloisters of the Cathedral of Viseu (c. 1528-1534) and Convent of Christ in Tomar (John III Cloisters, 1557–1591).

Rue Saint-Honoré

It is named after the collegial Saint-Honoré church situated in ancient times within the cloisters of Saint-Honoré.