How was a medieval monastery set up?

Question

Does anyone have a site that will tell me how a monastery was set up? Like main abbey and then other buildings surrounding it... Help?!

Answer 1

The Medieval Monastery layout and buildings
The principal buildings of a Benedictine monastery of the larger sort were grouped around an inner court, called a cloister. These included a church, a refectory, or dining room, with the kitchen and buttery near it, a dormitory, where the monks slept, and a chapter house, where they transacted business. There was also a library, a school, a hospital, and a guest house for the reception of strangers, besides barns, bakeries, laundries, workshops, and storerooms for provisions. Beyond these buildings lay vegetable gardens, orchards, grain fields, and often a mill, if the monastery was built on a stream. The high wall and ditch, usually surrounding a monastery, shut it off from outsiders and in time of danger protected it against attack.

I did a google search: "medeival monastery layout". this was the first thing that came up.