Mount Sion, near Prague (C/WC).

In Spain, the majority of abbeys are in Old Castile;  there are few in Catalonia, which was a Cistercian stronghold, or in Portugal (CLAPHAM).

Aguilar del Campo, Diocese Palencia, the best preserved;  consecrated 1212;  3 aisled chapter house.

St Cruz de Rivas, Diocese Palencia, well preserved, late 12th century.  Unusual aisleless nave, 3 aisled chapter house.

Bell Puig de las Avellanas, Diocese Lerida, well preserved.  3 aisled chapter house.

These last 3 ‘generally display the square-ended transeptal chapels, divided by solid walls, of the Cistercian type, but the main building in each case terminated in an apse’.

Bella Pais/Episcopia, diocese Nicosia, founded by the royal house of Lusignan.   It had an imposing square east end, and important narthex (showing Greek influence).  There was a stone bell-cote over the west end of the nave

Mount Joy near Jerusalem;  a simple cross church with an added aisle on the north side  It was said to have had an apse, but there is no evidence of it now.  It has an unusual aisleless nave (CLAPHAM).

The earliest churches were all fast-built, temporary ones (CLAPHAM).  The order grew quickly:  9 houses were built within 6 years of Premontre, 100 within 30 years of Norbert’s conversion, from France, Burgundy, Germany, Saxony and Gascony (C/WC).

German white canons possessed churches at an early date (C/WC).

There were probably eventually 322 houses in 29 or 30 circaries (CLAPHAM):