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Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction.

Monastery information

Benedictine

Roman Catholic

712

1539

King Ine of Wessex

Saint Dunstan, Henry of Blois, Henry de Sully, Savaric FitzGeldewin, Richard Whiting

Ruins

Glastonbury, Somerset

 England

51°8′44″N 2°42′52″W / 51.14556°N 2.71444°W / 51.14556; -2.71444

Glastonbury Abbey

9 October 1981

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Glastonbury Abbey

Grade I

21 June 1950

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The abbey was founded in the 8th century and enlarged in the 10th. It was destroyed by a major fire in 1184, but subsequently rebuilt and by the 14th century was one of the richest and most powerful monasteries in England. The abbey controlled large tracts of the surrounding land and was instrumental in major drainage projects on the Somerset Levels. The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England. The last abbot, Richard Whiting (Whyting), was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor in 1539.


From at least the 12th century, the Glastonbury area has been associated with the legend of King Arthur, a connection promoted by medieval monks who asserted that Glastonbury was Avalon. Christian legends have claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century.

Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia

and his sister Saint Drusa

Indract of Glastonbury

Edgar the Peaceful

Edmund I

Ealdgyth (wife of Edmund Ironside)

Edmund II

Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon

Richard Beere

Eosterwine

Hwaetberht

William of Malmesbury suggested that relics relating to others, including the following, were deposited at Glastonbury:

 – Medieval building in Glastonbury, England

Abbot's Kitchen, Glastonbury

 – List of medieval abbots of Glastonbury Abbey in England

Abbot of Glastonbury

Adam of Damerham

List of monastic houses in Somerset

 – Domes in religious architecture

History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes

Abrams, Lesley; (1991). The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey: Essays in Honour of the ninetieth birthday of C. A. Ralegh Radford. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-284-4.

Carley, James P.

(1960). From Caesar to Arthur. Collins.

Ashe, Geoffrey

Bond, Frederick Bligh (1920). . Kessinger. ISBN 978-1-4179-7776-5.

An Architectural Handbook of Glastonbury Abbey with a Historical Chronicle of the Building

(1988). Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous. Guild Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85115-460-2.

Carley, James P.

; Townsend, David (2009). Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey An Edition, Translation and Study of John of Glastonbury's Cronica sive Antiquitates: An Edition, Translation and Study ... Sive Antiquatates Glastoniensis Ecclesie. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-859-4.

Carley, James P.

(2001). Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition (preview). D.S.Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85991-572-4.

Carley, James P.

(1915). The Last Abbot of Glastonbury. A R Mowbray.

Crake, A. D.

Dowling, John (1845). (4th ed.). New York: Edward Walker.

The History of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time

Gasquet, Francis Aidan (1908). Last Abbot of Glastonbury and Other Essays. Kessinger Publishing Co.  978-0-7661-6289-1.

ISBN

Gilchrist, Roberta; Green, Cheryl (2015). . London: Society of Antiquaries of London. ISBN 9780854313006.

Glastonbury Abbey: archaeological investigations 1904–79

Harris, Kate (1992). Glastonbury Abbey Records at Longleat House: A Summary List. Somerset Record Society.  978-0-901732-29-3.

ISBN

Harris, Oliver D. (2018). "'Which I have beholden with most curiouse eyes': the lead cross from Glastonbury Abbey". Arthurian Literature. 34: 88–129. :10.1017/9781787442535.006. ISBN 978-1-84384-483-9. S2CID 200168947.

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Havinden, Michael (1981). The Somerset Landscape. The making of the English landscape. London: Hodder and Stoughton.  978-0-340-20116-9.

ISBN

Hill, Rosemary (2009). Stonehenge. Profile Books.  978-1-86197-880-6.

ISBN

Hollinrake, Charles; Hollinrake, Nancy (2007). "Glastonbury's Canal and Dunstan's Dyke". In Blair, John (ed.). Waterways and Canal Building in Medieval England. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  978-0-19-921715-1.

ISBN

Knowles, David (2004). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council 940–1216. Cambridge University Press.  978-0-521-54808-3.

ISBN

Knowles, David; Brooke, C. N. L.; London, Vera C. M. (2005). The Heads of Religious Houses England and Wales, I 940–1216. Cambridge University Press.  978-0-511-02872-4.

ISBN

Lance, Ron W.; O'Kennon, Robert J.; Phipps, James B. (2003). . Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-591-3.

Hawthorns and Medlars (Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Guide)

; Watts, Lorna (2003). Glastonbury: Myth and Archaeology. Stroud: History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-2548-1.

Rahtz, Philip

Rouse, Robert Allen; Rushton, Cory (2005). The Medieval Quest for Arthur. Stroud: History Press.  978-0-7524-3343-1.

ISBN

Searle, Muriel V. (2002). West Country History: Somerset. Bristol: Venton Publications.  978-1-84150-802-3.

ISBN

White, Richard (1997). . London: Dent. ISBN 978-0460879156.

King Arthur in Legend and History

Williams, Michael (1970). . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-07486-5.

The Draining of the Somerset Levels

(1866). The Architectural History of Glastonbury Abbey. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell.

Willis, Robert

Glastonbury Abbey official website