| FOUNTAINSABBEY | Ruined monastery in Yorkshire |
| BALMERINO | Ruined monastery in Fife, founded in 1229 (9) |
| JARROW | Now-ruined monastery in north-east England in which the Venerable Bede died (6) |
| WHITHORNPRIORY | Ruined monastery in Wigtownshire (8,6) |
| RIEVAULXABBEY | Ruined monastery near Helmsley, North Yorkshire |
| RIEVAULX | ___ Abbey, ruined monastery (8) |
| OYSTER | Shell of ruined monastery, deserted by man (6) |
| DUNDRENNANABBEY | Ruined monastery near Kirkcud bright (10,5) |
| PRIORY | Lindisfarne ___, ruined monastery on Holy Island (6) |
| ABBEY | Type of monastery such as the one on the island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, or the former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Burgundy (5) |
| CARMINABURANA | Medieval Latin verse anthology found in a monastery in 1803, partly used in the most famous 20th-century cantata |
| MONTE | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy that was accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 19 |
| CASSINO | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy that was accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 19 |
| NEWBATTLE | Former Cistercian monastery in Midlothian, founded in 1140 (9) |
| IONA | Island in the Hebrides where Saint Columba founded a monastery in the 6th Century (4) |
| MONTECASSINO | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 1944 |
| AMPLEFORTH | Catholic school on the grounds of a monastery in North Yorkshire (10) |
| CARTOIXA | Catalan word for a charterhouse such as that in the Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa, Mallorca (8) |
| ASHRAM | A hermitage or remote monastery in India (6) |
| SHAOLIN | Historic Buddhist monastery in the Songshan mountains |
