Glastonbury - Abbey

Records indicate that a monastery was first founded in Glastonbury in 601. Another followed around 700 founded by Ine, King of the West Saxons. St Dunstan (924-988) who was first a monk and later abbot of this monastery built the first stone church. He is buried here together with the Saxon kings Edmund (d. 975) and Edmund Ironside (d. 1016). A new Norman church built 1120 was destroyed by fire in 1184. The church underwent expansion between 1186 and the 16th century. In 1539 Henry VIII had the last abbot of the abbey, Richard Whiting hanged on Glastonbury Tor and the monastery destroyed.

Of the once giant monastery church of St Peter and Paul (580ft/177m long) the Late-Norman (1184-1186) St Mary's Chapel with its interlaced