The church in the village, dedicated to the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the only remaining part of the Ecclesia minor (lay monastery) associated with the nearby Carthusian monastery.
The Choir and Lay brothers nave were rebuilt in 1780, and the entryway was built in 1893.
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Among the famous people connected to Farlington is Thomas Pounde (29 May 1539 – 5 March 1614), an English Jesuit lay brother.
The abbey prospered and had no less than 100 monks and 200 lay brothers farming 12,000 hectares owned by the abbey, reaching as far as the gates of Laon.
In 1073 Hermann separated from his wife, took monastic vows, and became a lay brother in Cluny Abbey, where he died.
The French sculptor Auguste Rodin received counsel from Eymard when Rodin entered the Congregation as a lay brother in 1862, having given up art after the death of his sister.
Pietro Riminucci, also known as Serafino of Pietrarubbia, (Pietrarubbia, Pesaro e Urbino, Italy, 25 April 1875 – Macerata, Italy, 17 March 1960) was a lay brother professed in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
It was founded in 1128 in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Giselbert of Kasterlee, who not only gave the land, but also himself became a lay brother in the new community.
Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), Catholic lay brother and founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers
Finishing his manuscript on a plane to Miami, he explains that he plans to enter his childhood monastery as a lay brother named Ignacio, follow young Chris out of the monastery into 17th-century Cuba, go to Veracruz to meet him and take care of Novia, and eventually take his place as her husband and recover Burt's treasure.
The lay brother's church isnow used as the Parish church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St John Baptist and All Saints, Witham Friary.